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STATUE   OF   SENUSRIT    III. 
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THE    XIth    dynasty    TEMPLE 


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DEIR     EL-BAHARI 


PAET       III. 


BY 

EDOUARD     NAVILLE 

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PREFACE. 


This  volume,  a  joiut  work  of  Mi:  Hall  aud  myself,  is  tlic  last  of  the  pulilicatioiis  of  the  Fund 
on  the  two  temples  of  Dcir  el-Bahari. 

It  deals  chiefly  with  monuments  which,  except  the  tomb  of  Kemsit,  are  no  part  of  the 
construction  of  the  Xlth  Dynasty.  They  are  votive  statues  and  steles  dedicated  in  the  temple 
to  Amon  or  llathor,  or  small  ol>jects  deposited  in  the  tombs.  We  couhl  n(jt  have  left  them 
aside  if  we  wished  the  iiublication   to  be  complete. 

Tiie  appendix  written  Ijy  Mr.  Currelly  is  a  description  of  the  beads  and  porcelain  ware 
discovered  during  the  last  excavations.  Mr.  ('urrelly  also  made  a  tracing  of  the  fresco  in  the 
tomb  of  Kemsit,  which  was  re-drawn  l)y  Mme.  Navillc,  to  wliom  we  are  indebted  also  for  the 
linear  plates  of  inscriptions. 

The  last  plate,  made  from  a  fine  photograph  Ijy  Mr.  Burton,  gives  a  bird's-eye  view  of  the 
two  temples,  and  of  what  has  been  the  work  of  the  ollicers  of  the  Fund  during  ten  campaigns 
of  excavation.  For  travellers  Deir  el-Bahari  has  become,  and  will  remain,  one  of  the  chief 
attracti(jns  at  Theljes.  Tourists  may  judge  there  what  our  lab(Hir  has  been,  and  subscribers 
will  see  how  their  money  has  l)eeu  spent.  Those  who  know  Deir  el-Bahari  only  through  the 
publications  can  appreciate  its  value  for  history,  religion,  an<l  art. 

AVith  this  volume  the  present  writer  bids  farewell  to  Deir  el-Bahari,  where  he  started  the 
work  alone  in  the  winter  of  189.3,  and  where,  assisted  ])y  various  friends  and  fellow-w(jrkers,  he 
directed  all  the  successive  campaigns  of  excavation  down  to  the  spring  of  1907,  when  the 
clearing  of  the  small  temple  was  finished. 

EDOUARD   NAVILLE. 
Genkva,  JdiiiKiri/,   1913. 


CONTENTS 


CiiArTKR      1.  TnK  VoTivK,  I\IonuiM1<;nts.      I'.v   I'jDouakd  Navilmc  .... 

Chai'Tkk    Jl.  The  Paintings  in  tjik  Tomi;  ok  Kk.msit.     Bv  Im)()iiari)  Navili.k     . 

LJiiAiTEH  lir.  The  vStatues  of  Senu,si;it  111.      Bv  II.  R.  11am,   .... 

CuAi'TER  IV.  The  Smaller  Oiuects.     By  11.  11.  Hall       ...... 

Chaiteh     V.  Desurh'TION  of  Till-;  BL-vrEs.     By  Edouard  Naville  and  11.  R.  Hall 


rAGB 

1 

9 
10 
13 
":9. 


Ai'1'Enj>ix.     Tjie  Small  Antiquities  illustrated  on  Blate-s  XXX. — XXXI 11. 

By  C.  T.  Currelly      28 


Index   . 


35 


THE    XIth   dynasty   TEMPLE    AT 

DEIE    EL-BAHAEI. 

PART    III. 


CHAPTEPt   I. 

THE    VOTIVE    MONUMENTS. 
By  Edouard  Navillk. 


In  the  temple  of  the  XIth  Dynasty  there  was  a 
considerable  number  of  votive  statues.  A  few 
were  preserved  in  the  rubbish,  but  they  arc 
generally  very  much  broken,  and  the  quantity  of 
chips  found  shows  that  there  had  been  many  more. 
It  is  evident  that  they  were  smashed  intentionally, 
cither  when  the  temple  was  used  as  a  quarry,  (jr 
when  the  Copts  built  their  convent  close  by. 

Tlicse  statues  belong  to  the  XVIIIth,  the 
XlXth,  and  the  beginning  of  the  XXth  Dynasty. 
Later  on  the  temple  was  neglected,  as  well  as 
its  larger  neighbour.  Probably  the  worship  of 
the  eods  and  the  kinsrs  was  abandoned  when  the 
two  sanctuaries  became  burial-places,  and  when 
families  of  embalmers  settled  in  the  porticoes. 
As  for  the  old  building  of  Mentuhetep  it  certainly 
was  already  a  quarry  at  the  end  of  the  XXth 
Dynasty.  No  more  votive  monuments  were 
brought  to  its  derelict  sanctuary. 

The  inscriptions  show  that  these  monuments 
were  consecrated  to  Anion  and  Hathor.  Those 
of  the  priests  of  Hathor,  of  "  the  golden  cow," 
are  more  interesting  than  the  prayers  to  Anion 
which  contain  the  ordinary  formulas.  Hathor  is 
generally  called  the  goddess  of   the  mountain. 


though  she  also  goes  to  the  river,  and  conies  out 
of  it. 

The  place  where  the  temple  is  built  is  called 

^>,  n  A.stdkhuit  :  this  is  its  original  name. 

When  the  large  temple  was  built  it  is  said  that 

the  (j[ucen  raised  it  in  n ^^  ^    ^  ®  I''  "  ^^'^ 

Astakhuit  of  the  old  time." 

We  now  proceed  to  give  the  translations  of 
most  of  the  statues  or  stelae,  beginning  with  those 
dedicated  to  Anion  alone  or  to  both  divinities, 
leaving  those  of  the  Hathor  priests  for  the  end, 
and  omitting  the  inscriptions  which  are  mere 
repetitions. 

Pis.  IV.  1,  VIII.F,  <i,  /',  r,  (I.  Headless  statue 
in  granite,  of  a  scribe  named  Teta,  unrolling  a 
papyrus  on  his  knees.  To  his  left  hand  is  tied  a 
little  saucer  on  which  are  grains  of  frankincense 
°  "^^^  °°-  ^  would  attribute  this  monument 
to  the  XVIIIth  Dynasty.  It  is  very  like  the 
two  scribes  found  at  Bubastis,  of  the  time  of 
Ameuophis   III.^     It   seems  to  me    one  of  the 


1   Dcir  cl-Bahari,  I.,  PI.  xxii. 

■^  Bnhastis,  Pis.  xxv.,  xxxv.,  p.  32. 


THE  XIth   dynasty  TEMPLE   AT  DEIR  EL-BAHARI. 


most   ancient   monuments  of  the  New  Empire 

that    we    liave    discovered    here.       Ti-ta       \\  ^ 

was  connected  with  tlie  law  ;  he  was  a  lawyer. 
On  his  knees  we  read  thi.s:  — 

"  The  executing  the  laws,  estal)lishing  the  com- 
mands, making  known  to  all  the  dignities  their 
duties  and  conditions,  in  the  temple  of  Amon 
and  the  holy  horizon  of  llathor,  the  queen  of 
the  mountain — very  firmly — by  the  head  artist 
of  Amon,  the  official  Teta." 

We  learn  from  this  inscription  that  the  special 
sanctuary  of  llathor  is  called  "  the  holy  horizon  " 
%^ 

On  the  base  is  written  :  "  May  a  royal  offering 
be  given  to  Amon-Ra  Ilarmakhis,  llathor  the 
lady  of  Mannu,  who  resides  in  her  holy  horizon. 
May  they  give  all  that  appears  on  their  table 
every  day,  lilmtions  of  wine  and  milk,  and  incense 
in  every  season.  llathor,  lady  of  Astakhuit,  give 
me  the  victuals  ordered  for  thee  like  those  of  the 
very  ancient  god.s."' 

Before  the  legs  :  "  For  the  ka  of  the  chief  of 
the  abode  in  the  house  of  the  furniture  (?),  en- 
trusted with  all  the  works,  the  official  Teta,  living 
again." 

Pis.  IV.  2,  VIII. B,  a,  h.  Kneeling  statue  in 
sandstone,  painted  red.  The  man  holds  a  stele 
on  which  is  a  hymn  to  Amon. 

"  Praising  Ra,  when  he  rises,  and  brings  the 
morning,  being  the  spirit  of  the  East,  by  the 
royal  scribe,  the  royal  architect  (?),  the  chief  of 
Memphis  Jifenkheper.  He  says  :  Homage  to  thee 
who  shinest  on  the  horizon,  whose  forms  are 
lofty,  the  hawk,  the  lord  of  the  sky,  the  creator 
who  gave  birth  to  himself,  who  comes  out  of  Nu 
and  rises  on  the  earth,  the  very  marvellous, 
whose  essence  is  lioly,  who  created  mankind  and 
causeth  them  to  live,  the  master  of  the  oar  who 
wields  it  every  day,  tlie  veneral)le  god  who  is 
•seen  by  his  rays." 


Lit.,  gods  of  the  Firsit  Creation. 


Below  are  the  usual  sentences  : — 

"  A  royal  offering  to  Amon-Ra,  that  he  [the 
deceased]  may  see  his  face  every  time  he  rises  in 
all  his  festivals,  and  every  day  ;  for  the  royal 
scribe  Menkheper." 

"  A  royal  offering  to  Osiris,  the  great  god,  the 
prince  of  the  living.  May  he  give  [the  deceased] 
to  appear  as  a  living  spirit,"  to  see  the  solar  di.sk, 
and  to  look  at  the  moon  ;  this  is  for  the  chief  .  .  ." 

Pis.  IV.  3,  VIII. A.  A  .small  crouching  statue 
in  black  granite  :  the  head  is  lost. 

"A  royal  offering  to  Amon  Ra,  the  king  of 
the  gods  in  Astakhuit,  to  llathor  the  lady  of  the 
mountain,  to  Osiris  the  eternal  ruler.  May  they 
give  a  funerary  meal,  beef,  geese,  garments, 
incense,  scents,  oil,  vegetables,  all  things  good 
and  pure  of  which  a  god  liveth,  and  to  bi'cathe 
the  pleasant  wind  of  the  North,  for  the  scribe  of 
the  holy  offerings  of  Amon,  Aahines  called  Paten  ; 
said  Ijy  his  son,  who  revives  his  name,  the  scribe 
of  the  divine  offerings  of  Amon,  Amenemhel)." 

The  same  inscription  is  found  on  a  small  statue 
(PI.  V.  1),  which,  although  having  a  name  of 
the  Xllth    Dynasty,   certainly    belongs    to    the 

XVIIIth;    it  is  ^^^'^^HJr^^^^Q 

1  i  I V  ^  ^ —  iSiii  I  +¥  H  — ^  .M^  o  1  y  J- 

Though  the  statue  is  small  tlic  man  who  dedi- 
cated it  held  high  offices,  since  he  was  hereditary 
prince,  chancellor,  first  prophet  of  Amon,  and 
chief  of  all  the  prophets  of  Egypt.  His  name 
Amenemhat  occurs  sometimes  in  the  XVIIIth 
Dynasty. 

PI.  IX. D,  a,  li.  These  votive  statues  arc  very  like 
each  other,  with  only  slight  variants  ;  for  instance, 
here  tlie  deceased  asks  that  his  statue  may  remain 
in  Astakhuit.  He  is  a  mere  attendant  of  the 
king  without  any  important  office :  "  the  favourite 
of  the  king,  who  fills  his  heart,  the  attendant 
Ainenhetep." 

'^  A  bird  \vith  a  humau  head. 


THE  VOTIVE   MONUMENTS. 


Wc    sec    from  a    fracjinent  that  he   owes  his 


statue  to  his  grandson,  %s^/ww« 


PI.  IX.E.  Small  limestone  statue.  The  man 
was       ^  ^^"^i  which  is  now  translated  "vizier." 

Adkliejyer- Ra-seneh,  called  Pauah.  Ilis  first  name 
seems  to  indicate  that  he  was  born  and  lived 
under  one  of  the  first  two  Tliothmes. 

PI.  X.c,  a-f.  Lower  part  of  a  limestone  statue. 
The  man  was  called  Turn  o  v^  n  vA ,  and  seems 

to  have  been  a  very  high  dignitary. 

"  Homage  to  Osiris  by  the  royal  sou,  the  chief 
of  the  land  [of  the  South]  .  .  .  Tura.  Homage 
to  thee,  Osiris  .  .  .  the  lord  in  Dudu  .  .  .  the 
prince,  the  eternal  ruler,  grant  me  to  go  in  and 
out,  lead  ...  by  his  son  who  revives  his  name, 
the  scribe  of  the  holy  ofl'erings  of  Amon." 

On  the  other  side,  his  son  who  revives  his 
name  is  called  Paten.  Besides  the  usual  formulas, 
we  see  that  Tura  was  seiner  uat,  "  the  only  or  the 
first  friend,"  an  office  which  is  not  well  explained, 
and  "  that  he  filled  the  heart  of  the  king,  because 
of  his  excellence." 

He  seems  to  have  been  connected  with  the 
MadjaJu,  the  foreigners  who  became  a  guard  of 
mercenaries.  Other  fragments  say  that  he  was 
"  not  faithless,"  and  that  he  "  did  not  destroy  " 

There  is  a  mention  also  of  somethins; 

made  of  gold. 

PL  XI. A.  A  squatting  statue  had  been  dedi- 
cated to  a  famous  man  Nehi.  It  is  now  headless 
and  very  much  injured.  Nehi  is  well  known  by 
various  inscriptions  of  Thothmes  III.  at  Semneh, 
where  he  helped  to  restore  the  temple,  and  at 
Wadi  Haifa.  He  is  often  called  "  royal  son  of 
Kush,"  which  means  viceroy  of  the  country 
south  of  the  first  cataract.  Here  he  is  styled 
only :  "The  royal  son,  governor  of  the  countries 
of  the  South."  The  inscription  on  the  left  side 
is  very  much  destroyed ;  on  the  right  we  read  : 

"  A  royal  offering  to  Amon  Ra,  king  of  the 
gods,  the  lord  of  the  sky,  and   to   Hathor,  the 


lady  of  Anit,  who  resides  in  the  western 
mountain.  May  they  grant  bliss,  might,  victory, 
that  he  may  enter  the  Duat  and  its  dwellings  (?), 
inhale  frankincense  which  is  ofl'ered  before  them, 
to  the  royal  son,  the  governor  of  the  lands  of 
the  South,  Nehi." 

Two  cartouches  of  Thothmes  III.  are  on  the 
shoulders. 

Pis.  VI.  1,  VIII.E.  A  broken  fragment  of  a 
funerary  stele  (Pt.  I.,  p.  24,  n.  l),  which  is  not 
older  than  the  XlXth  Dynasty,  judging  from  the 
costume  of  the  deceased  and  his  wife,  who  are 
represented  below  in  the  attitude  of  prayer.  It 
is  unfortunate  that  so  little  is  preserved  of  this 
inscription.  The  gods  were  proljably  above  in 
the  part  which  is  left. 

In  the  horizontal  lines  the  deceased  addresses 
the  passers  by. 

" Usihat  says,  '  Hail,  priests,  choachytes 

you  will  bequeath  your  dignities  to  your 

children  if  you  say '  " 

In  the  vertical  columns  Usihat  makes  his  own 

eulogy,  and  speaks  of  his  employments  :  " 

he  was  truthful the  scribe,  the  accountant 

of  all   f>ood  thintrs  in   the  house  of  Neh-nia-Ra 

(Amenophis    III.),   the    first    proplict in 

the    house    of   lla-neb-khepera   (Tutankhamou). 

Usihat,  he  says:    I  was    silent beloved, 

kind-hearted,  with  choice  language.     I  rejoiced 

fraud.      I  walked  in   his  path.      I  have 

not  transgressed  in  it ;  my  heart  was  full  of  my 
god,  and  he  answered  me.  Said  by  the  scribe 
Usihat,  who  lives  again,  and  his  sister  the  lady, 
the  musician  of  Hathor,  and  the  singer  of  Amon, 
Nefertari,  who  lives  again."  ^ 

I  believe  this  is  the  first  occasion  we  find 
mention  of  the  house  of  Tutankhamou,  probably 
his  tomb  or  his  funerary  temple,  as  well  as  that 
of  Amenophis  III.  The  deceased  Usihat  was  an 
official  attached  to  the  funerary  service  of  these 
monarchs. 

'    I  Ml-     I  consider  this  .is  a  variant  of  |  T"- 

V.  2 


THE   XlTii   DYNASTY   TEMPLE   AT  DEIR  EL-BAHARI. 


Pis.  V.  2,  VIII.D,  a~c.  Lower  puit  of  a  small 
staircase,  on  the  top  of  which  probably  stood  a 
statue.  There  are  only  a  few  words  left.  On 
the    right :    "  his   ears   hear  things    pleasant    to 

gods  and  men,"  and  on  the  line  below,  " 

the  elder  artist  of  Ilathor  of  the  house  of  IMait, 
on  the  west  of  Thebes." 

Pis.  VI.  2,  VIII.c,  a-i:  A  granite  stele,'  the 
lower  part  of  which  is  broken  ofl'.  It  is  a  scene 
of  adoration  to  various  gods.  It  probably  stood 
before  the  statue  of  Anion. 

The  god  to  whom  it  is  dedicated  is  Anion,  in 
his  residence  of  Apet.  He  is  sitting  ;  behind 
him  is  "  Mut,  the  lady  of  the  sky,  the  mistress 
of  the  land,"  and  "  Khonsu  Neferhotep."  The 
divinities  who  worship  him  are  standing  in  two 
rows.  Above,  "  Min  of  Koptos,  the  lord  of  the 
sky,  Isis,  the  lord  of  Shmun  (Thoth),  Shu,  and 
Hathor"  issuing  from  her  mountain.  Below, 
Unnofris  of  the  West,  Horus,  vVmut  (Anubis), 
Hathor,  the  divine  daughter  of  Dad  (Osiris),  who 
may  Ijc  the  jackal-headed  god,  and  Nephthys. 
The  figure  of  the  deceased  does  not  appear  any- 
where ;  he  was  probalily  on  the  lower  part  of 
the  stele. 

"The  beloved  of  his  god,  the  head  of  the 
draughtsmen  of  Anion,  Didiuia,  the  son  of  the 
draughtsman  of  Anion,  Jfataai,  speaks  thus  : 
Hail,  Anion,  lord  of  lords,  the  creator,  who  was 
born  of  himself,  lord  of  the  thrones  of  the  two 
lands,  king  of  the  gods,  the  Ani  of  Thebes. 
Grant  me  to  be  well-pleasing  before  thee. 

"  Hail,  Ra,  creator  of  mankind,  mother  and 
father  of  all  men,  shining  on  them  every  day, 
grant  that  I  may  see  thee  eternally  every  day 
without  ceasing. 

"Hail,  Turn,  who  resideth  in  On,  the  lord  of 
forms,  in  all  the  places  he  likes,  the  great  god, 
the    first-born,    the    creator,    when    he    wanders 


'  This  stele  was  funnel  thrown  into  the-  shaft  of  an 
Xlth  Dynasty  tomb  {Dcir  el-Bahari,  Xlth  Dyn.,  I.,  p.  4.5). 
It  is  now  in  the  British  Museum  (no.  700). 


away  it  is  not  known  where  he  is.  Grant  that  I 
may  be  joined  to  thy  favourites. 

"  Hail,  Shu,  Khonsu  Neferhotep,  who  is  high 
on  his  pedestal,  who  was  at  the  beginning,  the 
chief  who  is  in  Hatha,  may  he  give  nic  food  and 
victuals  while  I  am  on  earth. 

"Hail,  Tefnut,  daughter  of  Ra,  the  mother, 
the  queen  of  the  two  lands,  hidden  and  con- 
cealed so  that  nobody  may  know  it,  queen 
of  all  the  gods,  who  gives  life,  health  and 
strength,  old  age  with  her  benevolence,  to  all 
her  servants. 

"  Hail,  Qeb,  the  father  of  the  gods,  who  gave 
birth  to  all  beings,  the  only  one,  the  divine,  who 
hides  himself,  who  makes  his  cliildren  as  masters 
of  what  he  has  done.  May  he  give  me  to  be 
buried  in  this  land  for  ever,  and  that  I  may 
have  rest." 

There  the  stele  is  broken  oft". 

Right  .side  of  the  band  around  the  stele.  "A 
royal  ottering  to  Osiris,  Unnofris,  Horus,  ]\Iin, 
Isis,  Hathor  of  Djeser,  on  the  west  of  her  terrace. 
May  they  grant  that  I  go  in  and  out,  that  I  may 
not  be  repulsed  at  any  gate." 

Left.  "  A  royal  ofi"ering  to  Anion,  lord  of  the 
thrones  of  the  two  lands,  ]\[ut  of  A.sher,  Khonsu 
of  Thebes,  Neferhotep,  Thoth  of  Shmun,  Anubis, 
Shu,  son  of  Ra.  May  they  give  me  life,  health 
and  strength,  that  my  name  may  remain  in  this 
temple.     It  is  for " 

There  are  texts  also  on  the  thickness  of  the 
stele.  On  the  left  side  there  has  been  an  erasure  : 
a  cartouche  has  been  destroyed. 

Left  side.  "  Hail,  prophets,  priests,  choachytes, 
and  every  scribe  who  is  learned  in  writing  ;  if 
you  read  this  stele  of  Anion  of  Apet,  if  you  will 
please  the  lords  of  eternity,  and  bequeath  your 
dignities  to  your  children  after " 

Right.  "  Whosoever  makes  libations  before 
this  image  of  Anion  of  Apet,  and  his  cycle  of 
gods,  you  will  receive  oft'erings  in  the  house  of 
Anion,  and  ftowers  in  the  temple  of  Mut  and 
Khonsu,  your  words  will  l)e  heard  in  On,  and 
re-echoed  at  Thebes." 


THE  VOTIVE   MONUMENTS. 


Pis.  VI.  .3,  IX.F.  Of  this  group  in  limestone 
hardly  anything  is  left  except  names.  The  man 
was  connected  with  the  worship  of  Mentuhetep. 
We  sec  the  names  of  his  daughters,  Udja,  Nch- 
fds/mrciii/ia,  Adhhotcp.  Ilis  sons  are  called 
Aiihiacs  and  AniencniJich.  These  names  clearly 
point  to  the  XVIIIth  Dynasty. 

]'l.s.  VII.  1,  XI. IJ,  (I,  h.  Fragments  of  a  pyra- 
midiou  engraved  with  great  carelessness.  The 
man  for  whom  it  was  made  seems  to  have  been 
called  Dhufi  Thoth.  He  was  probably  connected 
with  the  worship  of  Mentuhetep,  whose  cartouche 

is  mentioned  with  the  rare  spelling,  O  ^^37  |  , 
which  confirms  the  reading  hcjief  for  the  sign 
1,  and  which  is  found  in  the  Abbott  Papyrus. 

Pis.  IV.  4,  X.1J,  c.  Among  the  most  impor- 
tant monuments  are  two  statues  of  different  size. 
They  were  nearly  complete  when  discovered. 
Unfortunately  the  head  of  the  larger  one  was 
stolen  from  us,  and  seen  afterwards  in  the  shop 
of  a  dealer  in  Cairo,  but  could  not  be  recovered. 
The  photographs  of  PI.  IV.  are  of  the  smaller 
one,  now  in  the  British  Museum  (no.  G87) ;  the 
larger  one  is  at  Philadelphia.*  They  both  are 
images  of  a  high  official,  known  by  a  great 
number  of  monuments,  and  whose  tomb  had 
already  been  discovered  by  Lepsius.^     His  name 

is  A^  ra  Yl '  which,  as  the  variants  teach  us,  is 
to  be  read  Paiscru.  He  was  one  of  those  officials 
whose  title  is  translated  "  vizier,"  of  which  there 
.seems  to  have  been  only  one  at  this  time  in 
Egypt.  At  the  same  time  he  was  "chief  justice," 
-^  ^.  and  ^,  "  head  of  the  South." 

The  numerous  monuments  on  which  Paiseru 
is  mentioned  give  us  a  long  list  of  his  titles,' 
some  of  which  are  his  employments,  while 
others  arc  only  flattering  epithets.     Nevertheless 


>  Beir  el-Bahari,  Xlth  Di/ua.sti/,  I.,  p.  .33. 

2  Denkmdlcr,  III.,  132. 

'■'  A.  Wkill,  Die  Vczicrc  dcs  I'liaraoiicnrcichcn,  p.  80. 


there  is  one  which  had  n(jt  been  found  before, 
1  \/  J\  '■^^■^  °==s  0(1  ^  2Z3  ^  "  the  royal  messenger 
of  the  Nortli  wind."  This  is  very  similar  to  one 
whicli  belouiis  to  another  vizier,  I  \J  ~w>aa  IZU  i 
Vi  I  ,''  "  the  royal  messenger  of  the  pleasant 

Ijreath."  The  meaning  is  identical,  for  in- 
numerable inscriptions  speak  to  us  of  "  tlic 
pleasant  breath  of  the  North." 

Paiseru  died  under  Rameses  II.,  but  he  had 
lived  and  received  his  first  employments  under 
Seti  I.,  as  we  know  from  his  tomb.  The  inscrip- 
tions on  liis  statues  are  either  prayers  to  the 
gods  or  eulogies  of  his  virtues  and  his  merits,  as 
is  usually  the  case  with  funerary  inscriptions. 

We  begin  with  the  larger  statue. 

In  front  (PL  X.B,  r)  :— 

" the  divine  father,  the  divine  attend- 
ant (?),  whose  mouth  gives  pleasure  to  the  whole 
land.  The  cars  of  his  lord  are  filled  with  truth. 
He  is  rejoiced  by  what  comes  out  of  his 
[Paiseru's]  mouth  ;  the  governor  of  the  city,  the 
vizier  Paiseru." 

Back  of  the  statue  (PI.  X.B,  c) :   "  IMay  a  royal 

offering  be  made  to  Anion  Pa they  swear 

by  thee.  Thou  art  the  only  (jne  who  liveth  on 
truth,  who  provides  the  necessaries  to  the  living. 
He  is  prosperous,  he  who  pleaseth  thee,  no  evil 

reacheth  him.     I  am  thy  son of  the  house. 

I  was  born  on  thy  floor,  and  all  thy  designs 
remain  in  my  heart.  I  shall  not  oppose  them. 
The  txods  bee;  life  from  thee  like  the  servants 
and  the  high  ones.  Give  me  that  this  day  may 
be  better  than  yesterday.  Grant  me  thy  be- 
nevolence, and  peace,  as  to  a  servant  who  is 
pleasant  to  his  master.  This  is  for  the  ka  of  the 
hereditary  prince  in  the  house  of  Qeb,  the  ■sem 
in  the  royal  house,  the  only  well  doing,  the  head 
of  the  officials,  the  chief  of  the  great  ones  of  the 
palace.  He  arrives  in  heaven  to  see  what  tliere 
is  therein.  He  is  tlie  initiated  priest  of  the  two 
goddesses.      He  is  pure  and  perfect.     The  work 


*  A.  Weill,  l.L,  p.  89. 


THE   XlTH   DYNASTY  TEMPLE   AT  DEIR  EL-13AHAEI. 


of  his  hands  is  pure.  It  is  not  ignored  on  earth 
liow  pleasant  his  voice  was,  where  he  made  the 
sacred  ofterings,  and  propitiated  the  gods  with 
abundance.  He  is  the  first  prophet  of  Uerthiket, 
who  carries  the  standard  on  the  right  of  the 
king/  the  royal  herald  who  knows  when  to  speak,^ 
the  messenger  of  the  North  wind,  the  director 
of  the  festival  of  Anion,  tlie  chief  of  the  works 
in  Astmait,^  to  whom  the  West  of  Thebes  was 
bequeathed  wlien  he  was  still  in  the  womb  of 
his  mother,  the  governor  of  the  city,  the  vizier 
Paiseru." 

Right  side   (b,  (?) :  " of   the    city,  the 

vizier  Paiseru  speaks  thus  :  '  0  ye  prophets  and 
priests  of  Astakhuit,  and  all  scribes  learned  in 
writing,  who  please  Anion  Ra, bring  offer- 
ings before  me,  stretch  your  hands your 

names  likewise,  after  an  advanced  old  age.'" 

Left  side  (b,  (/)  :  " to  thee,  my  limbs 

are  pure,  thy  teaching  is  within  me.  I  know 
thee.  Thou  art  greater  than  the  gods.  I  am 
acting  according  to  thy  will.  Give  me  a  dura- 
tion of  a  happy  life,  that  no  evil  may  befall  me, 
and  grant  me  the  West  of  Thebes  as  to  the  lord 
of  truth." 

Under  the  sceptre  are  the  cartouches  of 
Rameses  II. 

PI.  X.c.  Small  statue.  In  front  (o,  li) : — 
"  The  hereditary  prince,  the  chief  justice,  the 
truthful  who  hates  falsehood,  the  chief  of  the 
South,  the  prophet  of  ]\[ait,  the  liead  of  the 
attendants  of  the  lord  of  the  two  lands,  the 
governor  of  the  city,  the  vizier  Paiseru." 

Back  (c,  (/)  :  "  May  a  royal  offering  be  made 
to  Amon  Ra,  Tuni,  Ilorus,  Khepera,  the  spirit  of 
the  West  (Osiris),  the  master  of  gods  and  god- 


'  This    may    lie    written     in     various    ways,    ^  J 


\\    ^^w«  (unpublished  fragment), 


^ 


— fl  I    /www 


•I 


(Weill,  l.L,  p.  05),  "i'^  ^  ('''■>  P-  9")- 

-  Lit.,  who  knows  the  abode  of  Ills  mouth. 
^  The  necropolis  at  Thebes. 


desses,  the  lord  of  lords,  the  king  of  the  cycle 
of  the  gods,  the  father  of  fathers,  the  mother  of 
mothers,  the  ruler  in  the  sky,  on  the  earth,  and 
in  the  Duat.     Old  age  is  completely  in  thy  hand,* 

give    me a   l)urial   near  thee,  grant   me 

forms before  thee  like  the  lord  of  truth. 

May  I  receive  loaves  at  the  appointed  time  wlien 
offerings  are   presented.      This  is  for  the  la  of 

Osiris on   the  right  of  the  king,  to  the 

head  of  the  prophets,  the  messenger  of  Mait,  the 
governor  of  the  city  Paiseru,  the  son  of  the 
priest,  first  prophet  of  Amon,  the  lord  of  the 
gods,  born  of   the    superior  of  the    recluses    of 

Amon in  its  forepart,^  who  joins  Nu  in 

her  name  of  Mehuerit.  Grant  me  that  my  heart 
may  delight  in  abundance after  an  ad- 
vanced old  age,  that  my  body  may  reach  thy 
mountain,  that  which  is  in  the  Lower  world. 
May  tliat  truly  take  place." 

Left  side  (c,  c)  :  "  Osiris,  the  governor  of  the 
city,  the  vizier  Paiseru,  says,  '  I  have  come  to 
thee,  Osiris,  lord  of  Djeser.  Thou  art  the  lord  of 
truth,  lasting  for  ever.  Thou  fillest  mankind 
with  abundance ;  give  me  bread,  water,  breath, 
that  my  body  may  remain,  that  my  mummy 
may  prosper,  that  invocations  be  uttered  before 
me  every  day,  that  my  spirit  may  not  be 
repelled.' " 

Riglit  side  (c,  a)  :  " the  venerable  god 

at  Thebes,  Amon  Ra,  who  resides  at  Astakhuit. 
Grant  me  that  my  name  may  prosper  in  thy 
house,  that  I  may  receive  loaves  Ijeforc  thee, 
that  I  may  inhale  the  incense  given  thee  on 
the  altar." 

Pis.  XVI.  2,  XI.c.  Fragment  of  a  group  in 
black  granite  mentioning  Rameses  II.  Part  of 
his  name  is  not  very  distinct ;  we  do  not  see  the 
name  of  the  god  by  whom  he  is  said  to  be  loved  ; 
it  may  be  Sokaris.  As  for  the  name  of  Nefert- 
ari,  it  seems  to  be  that  of  the  queen,  and  not 


*  The  duration  of  life  depends  on  liis  will. 
^  Probably  of  a  boat. 


THE  VOTIVE   MONUMENTS. 


of   the   siuger  of   Anion  whom   we   met  before 
(PI.  VIII.e).' 

Pis.  TV.  5,  X.A,  a-<l.  This  statue  is  in  better 
state  of  preservation  than  tlie  other  ones.  It 
lias  kept  its  head.  It  was  found  in  the  rubbish 
ut  the  entrance  of  the  chapel  of  the  Ilathor  Cow. 

This  priest,  of  the  lower  order,  liveil  at  the 
end  of  the  XlXth  Dynasty  and  the  beginning  of 
the  XX th.  The  statue  bears  on  the  shoulders 
the  cartouches  of  Meueptah  and  Ilameses  III. 

On  his  right  is  his  wife,  on  his  left  his  sou. 

llight :  "May  a  royal  offering  l»e  made  to 
Anion  Ra,  Ilarmakhis,  Tuni  the  lord  of  Thebes, 
Mut  the  great  mistress  of  the  sky,  and  Khonsu 

Neferhotep.     May  they  give  a  happy  life 

to  enjoy  the  favour  of  gods  and  men,  to  the 
singer,  son  of  singers,  who  conies  out  with  song 
every  day,  the  divine  father  in  the  sanctuary  of 
Ba-en-Ra-incr-Ainon  [Meneptah],  in  the  temple 
of  Amon  on  the  West  of  Thebes,  to  the  great 
priest  who  enters  the  house  of  Anion  at  Thebes, 
the  official  Nedjem." 

His  wife  seems  to  be  connected  with  the 
worshijD  of  JMenthu  ;  her  name,  which  is  doubtful, 
may  be  Takhentemlieh. 

Left :  "  All  that  appears  on  the  table  of 
Amon,  Mut,  and  Khonsu,  as  the  gift  of  everv 
day,  is  for  the  ka  of  the  divine  father  of  the 
sanctuary  of  Ba-en-Ra-mcr-Aiiion,  in  the  temple 
of  Anion,  the  official  Nedjem,  the  justified  son 
of  Bckmut,  from  his  son  who  revives  his  name, 
the  great  priest,  the  chief  of  Amon,  Malii." 

We  now  come  to  the  statues  of  the  priests  of 
Ilathor.     In  both  of  them  the  goddess  is  spoken 

'  The  inscription  at  the  side  reads : — 

I    °H>      ^ 

I     M    I    I 


MIPT 


iPPPiP 


of  as  being  "  the  cow  ftf  gold,"  so  that  it  is  not 
impossible  that  it  is  the  cow  found  in  the  temple, 
the  head  of  which  was  gilt. 

PL  IX.A,  a-c.  Crouchinor  statue  in  black 
granite,  lieadless,  holding  in  right  hand  the 
inenat  of  Hatlior,  and  before  his  knees  the  head 
of  the  goddess. 

Left  side  (a,  '/) :  "(Jiving  praise  to  Ilathor, 
and  falling  down  before  the  lady  of  Thebes,  the 
mistress  of  Djeser,  by  the  royal  artist,  pure  in 
his  work,  the  head  of  the  priests  of  Uerhiket, 
Djdui.  He  says  :  '  Homage  to  thee,  the  cow  of 
gold,  the  beautiful,  with  numerous  colours,  the 
only  one  in  the  sky,  Ilathor  who  is  above  Ra. 
Thine  eyes  reach  Kush,  thou  art  the  great  lady 
of  Punt,  thou  feelest  the  good  breath  of  the  wind, 
thou  causest  it  to  change  (?)  from  the  North 
to  the  South  wind  when  thou  wieldest  the  oars. 
Bring  me  cattle,  geese,  incense,  the  gifts  of  thy 
temple.  May  Ptah  make  ..?..,  which  are  his 
gift,  and  make  a  birthplace  (?)  by  his  art.  May 
I  receive  the  bread  which  is  before  thee,  and  the 
victuals  of  thy  temple,  may  I  go  in  and  out 
pure  of  hands,  on  the  mountain  West  of  Thebes 
for  the  royal  artist  Djaui.'" 

Right  (a,  I)) :  "  Osiris,  royal  artist  Djaui. 
Thou  receivest  five  loaves  in  Dadu,  eight  (?)  in 
Abydos,  twelve  loaves  in  Uu  Peg,"  thou  receivest 
feet  to  walk  upon,  thighs  to  sit  upon,  fingers  to 
take  all  things  given  to  thee,  thou  eatest  cakes 
which  come  out  of .  .  ?  .  .,  and  pastry  coming  out 
of  the  mould.  Thou  receivest  the  heart  of  thy 
mother,  the  heart  which  thou  hadst  on  earth, 
thou  eatest  cakes,  and  thou  feedest  upon  grain, 
when  thou  art  lying  on  thy  bed.  The  gods  who 
are  present  are  given  thee  [as  guides],  they  lead 
thee  well,  as  they  do  to  every  god  and  every  god- 
dess.    [This  is  for]  Osiris,  the  royal  artist  Djaui." 

In  front,  before  the  knees,  there  is  a  head  of 
Hathor.  The  text  is  rather  uncertain,  especially 
in  the  lower  inscriptions  (a,  c). 

^  Sacred  territory  at  Abydos. 


THE  XlTH  DYNASTY   TEMPLE   AT   DEIR  EL-nAHAIlI. 


"The  royal  artist  Djaui  says:  'I  am  the  priest 
of  Hathor,  who  hears  the  rec^ucsts  of  all  maidens 

who  weep,  and  who Hathor    give    me 

ointment  for  my  head,  beer  for  my  mouth,  bread 
and  drink  which  is  offered  thee  by  thy  servants. 
Give  me  the  cakes  before  thee,  and  that  I  may 
address   Hathor,   who    listens  to  the    miserable 

for  him  who  is  pure,  the  prophet  of  the 

royal  living  la '  " 

Back  (a,  d):  "A  royal  offering  to  Amon  Ra  and 
Uerhiket ;  may  they  give  bread,  breath,  water, 
frankincense  to  the  royal  artist  Djaui.  May  Ra 
give  bliss  in  the  sky  to  the  royal  artist  Djaui. 
May  Qeb  give  power  on  earth  to  the  royal  artist 
Djaui.  May  Tum  give  a  good  burial  to  the 
royal  artist  Djaui.  May  Osiris  give  victory  to 
the  royal  artist  Djaui,  the  son  of  Ilat,  born  of 
the  lady  Roi" 


PI.  IX.IJ.  Another  statue,  in  limestone,  of 
a  priest  or  priestess  of  Hathor,  whose  name 
we  do  not  know.  Very  little  is  left  of  the 
text. 

.  .  .   her  son  Uadjuadj. 
...   ye  who  go  into  the  temple  of  Nubt,  fill  my 

mouth  with  gifts  .  .  . 
.  .  .  her  (?)   he   is   satisfied   I   am  (?)     I   say   to 

Nubt  .  .  . 
.  .  .  yc    inhabitants  of  Thebes,  liigh  as  well  as 

poor,  all  ye  who  go  to  ...  in  Djeser. 
.  .  .   to  tell  your  requests  to  the  cow  of  gold,  to 

the   lady  of  happy  life,   to   the   mistress 

of  .  .  . 
.  .  .  porter,  may  she  give  us  children  excellent  in 

this  house,  happiness,  a  good  husband  .  .  . 
.  .  .  rest  on  her  feet,  if  cakes  are  given  him  before 

her,  she  will  not  be  wroth  .  .  . 


CHAPTER    II. 

THE    PAINTINGS    IN   THE   TOMB   OF   KEMSIT. 
By  Edouard  Naville. 


In  Part  I.,  p.  49,  Mr.  Ayrton,  speaking  of  the 
tomb  of  the  princess  Kemsit,  says  :  "  Round  the 
wall,  at  about  one  foot  from  the  roof,  is  a  baud 
(2  ft.  broad)  of  painted  scenes,  resembling  those 
depicted  on  the  sarcophagi,  the  princess  in  each 
being  painted  Ijlack.  Along  the  top  of  these 
scenes  is  a  line  of  hieroglyphs,  with  the  usual 
funerary  formula,  '  for  the  spirit  of  the  Priestess 
of  Ilathor,  the  only  royal  favourite,  Kemsit.'  " 


P/.M. 


PIE. 


Approximate  Plan  of  Tomb-chamber  of  Kemsit,  with  references  to 
wall-paintings,  Plates  II,  and  III. 

This  wall-painting  is  reproduced  on  Pis.  II.  and 
III.  from  a  tracing  made  by  Mr.  Currelly,  which 
has  been  redrawn  by  Mme.  Naville.  The  original 
in  the  tomb  is  very  coarsely  painted  on  the  rough 
stone,  and  seems  to  contain  some  mistakes  in 
writing.  It  is  a  repetition  of  scenes  which  we 
have  already  seen  on  the  sarcophagi  of  two  other 
princesses,  Kauit  and  Henhenit,  and  of  Kemsit 
herself.' 

PI.  III.  is  what  one  sees  in  front  of  the 
entrance.  Kemsit  is  black  as  usual ;  behind  her 
arc  two  attendants,  one  doing  her  hair  as  we 
.saw  for  Kauit  (I.,  PI.  XX.),  and  one  liolding  a 


'   Pfirt  I.,  p.  48  ir. 


big  feather  to  be  used  as  a  fan,  also  on  Kauit's 
coffin.  The  offerings  brought  to  Kemsit  are 
more  numerous  than  on  the  sarcophagus,  there 
beiug  much  more  space  to  paint  them.  A  scene 
wliich  we  did  not  find  on  any  of  the  three  coffins 
is  that  of  the  butchers.  The  inscriptions  are 
only  the  name  and  titles  of  the  princess,  and  the 
catalogue  of  offerings. 

PI.  II.  gives  us  the  scenes  on  the  sides. 
On  the  right  we  see  Kemsit,  to  whom  an  at- 
tendant brings  some  drink.  He  is  followed  by 
the  red  cow  suckling  her  calf  (I.,  PI.  XX.),  the 
spotted  cow,  and  the  bull.  On  the  other  side 
Kemsit,  holding  a  lotus,  receives  various  victuals 
brought  by  men. 

Above  the  entrance  there  is  probably  a  mistake. 
Instead  of  being  black,  Kemsit  here  is  yellow, 
and  her  hair  and  dress  are  those  of  an  attendant. 
Two  women  bring  her  a  vase,  a  basket,  and 
living  animals,  and  at  the  end  a  man  milks  the 
spotted  cow  (I.,  Pis.  XX.  and  XXII.),  who  seems 
to  come  out  of  the  river. 

The  representations  on  the  sarcophagus  of 
Kemsit  were  much  more  complete  and  better 
done  than  this  wall-painting. 

Kemsit's  mummy,  with  her  head  turned  on 
one  side  in  a  manner  usual  under  the  Xlth 
Dynasty  (like  the  Cairo  mummy  of  Amenit,  also  a 
priestess,  aud  found  near  Deir  el-Bahari),  is,  as  has 
already  been  mentioned,'  in  the  British  Museum 
(no.  41853),  with  the  fragments  of  her  beautiful 
shrine  and  sarcophagus  (nos.  1450  and  43037). 


■'  Tart  I.,  p.  .50. 


10 


THE  XIth  dynasty  TEMPLE   AT  DEIR  EL-BAIIARI. 


CHAPTEB    III. 

THE    STATUES    OF    SENUSRIT    III. 
By  II.  R.  Hall. 


Next  to  the  fragments  of  tlie  Xllth  Dynasty 
shrines  and  the  magnificent  XVIIIth  Dynasty 
Cow  of  Ilathor  the  most  important  discovery 
made  durinir  the  excavation  is  that  of  the  six 
statues  of  Senusrit  III.  (Xllth  Dynasty).  These 
have  ah-eady  })een  described  shortly,  and  the 
circumstances  of  their  discovery  rehited,  in  Den- 
el-Bahari:  XIth  J)i/iiasf_i/,I.,-p.  37  ;  photographs 
of  the  four  most  complete  figures  were  published 
in  the  same  volume  (PI.  XIX.).  A  large  picture 
of  the  best-preserved  portrait  (B.M.,  no.  685) 
was  also  given  in  the  second  volume  (PI.  II.). 
This  fine  photograph  was  taken  l>y  Mr.  Macbeth 
in  the  gallery  of  the  British  Museum,  to  which 
this  figure  was  assigned.  In  the  present  volume 
two  photographs  (Pis.  I.  and  XXI.)  of  a  less  well- 
preserved  but  even  more  striking  portrait  of  the 
king,  also  one  of  the  set  of  three  statues  pre- 
sented to  the  British  Museum  (no.  G8G),  is 
given,  with  one  of  the  single  figure  kept  at 
Cairo  (PI.  XXI.  (//)).  The  first  two  of  these 
photographs  were  taken  by  Mr.  Macbeth,  the 
third  by  Brugsch  Pasha. 

It  will  be  evident  from  the  pliotographs  that 
these  portrait-statues  are  monuments  of  the  first 
class,  splendid  examples  of  the  art  of  the  Xllth 
Dynasty,  and  among  the  finest  Egyjitian  royal 
portraits  that  exist.  Those  in  the  British 
Museum  are  wortliy  companions  of  the  great 
head,  one  of  two  previously  found  for  the  Fund 
by  M.  Naville  at  Bubastis,^  wliicli,  though  it  has 
been  assigned  in  turn  to  the  Ilykso.s  kings  Apepi 


'   JJiibatilin,  Pis.  X.,  xi. 


and  Khian,  is  almost  certainly,  judging  by  its 
style,  also  a  portrait  of  a  Xllth  Dynasty  king, 
perhaps  x\menemhat  III.  The  figure  of  Plate  I. 
and  Plate  XXI.  (a)  has  the  most  remarkable 
portrait  of  all,  and  is  certainly  the  finest. 

Tlic  difl'erences  between  the  portraits  arc 
easily  seen  from  the  photographs.  The  difi'er- 
ence  between  (a)  and  (A)  of  PI.  XXI.  is  specially 
marked,  yet  not  so  great  that  they  cannot  be 
recognized  as  portraits  of  the  .same  man,  at 
different  periods  of  his  life  :  {(i)  shows  the  king 
as  a  middle-aged  man,  (A)  as  a  young  man.  In 
(a)  we  have  the  rounded  contour  of  youth,  in  {!>) 
the  strongly-lined  features  of  age.  AVe  know 
that  l)oth  do  represent  the  same  man  :  all  the 
figures  bear  the  prenomen  of  Senusrit  III.,  clearly 
cut,  and  over  no  erasure  ;  they  are  all  portraits 
of  King  "  Khakaura,"  whose  name  they  bear. 
They  must  therefore  have  been  made  at  difi'erent 
periods  of  the  king's  life,  unless  we  suppose  that 
they  are  different  sculptors'  impressions  of  the 
royal  visage,  some  more,  some  less  fiattering  to 
him.  With  the  exception  of  the  Cairo  head, 
which  is  tamer  than  the  others  (])eing  perhaps 
the  youngest),  the  portraits  certainly  show  very 
much  the  kind  of  face  that  we  should  imagine 
the  great  king  to  have  possessed,  a  hard,  "  dour" 
visage,  with  keen  eyes  and  determined  mouth, 
a  fiice  far  more  intelligent  than  those  of  many 
later  pharaohs.  The  same  impression  is  given 
by  other  portraits  of  the  king :  that  found  by 
JNI.   Legrain  at  Karnak  and  now  at  Cairo,'^  and 


-  Legkain,  Cat.  Gen.  Masee  ihi   Cnire :  Statues  de  Eoin, 
I,  p.  8,  PL  vi. 


THE   STATUES  OF   SENUSRIT   III. 


11 


the  two  discovered  by  Prof.  Petric  at  Abydos/ 
oue  of  which  is  phiccd  uear  the  Deir  cl-Bahari 
figures  in  the  British  Museum  (no.  G08).  These 
show  Scuusrit  as  an  old  man,  and  the  features 
have  become  sterner  with  age. 

This  is  indeed  the  conqueror  of  the  Nul)ians  and 
Negroes,  the  buihler  of  Semneh  and  Kummeh, 
who  set  up  that  extraordinary  inscription  now  at 
Berlin  :"  "I  have  made  my  boundary,  my  going 
up-stream,  farther  than  my  fathers  ;  I  have  added 
to  what  was  decreed  to  me  ;  I,  the  king,  I  say  it 
and  I  have  done  it.     What  my  licart  conceived 

my  hand  brought  to  pass And  if  any 

one  of  my  sons  shall  have  maintained  this 
boundary  made  by  my  Majesty,  he  is  verily  my 

son,  begotten  by  my  Majesty  myself 

but  if  he  shall  have  slackened  it  and  not  fought 
for  it,  no  son  of  mine  is  he,  and  none  begotten 
by  me.  And  behold  !  my  Majesty  hath  caused 
to  be  made  a  statue  of  my  Majesty  upon  this 
boundary  made  by  my  Majesty,  not  desiring 
that  ye  sIkjuUI  venerate  it,  but  that  ye  should 
figlit    for    it!"^      Later    pharaohs    often    placed 

'  AhyiloK,  i.,  PI.  Iv.,  6,  7  ;  iii.,  PI.  xii.,  4,  5. 
2  L.,  D.,  III.,  PI.  13C. 


□ED      □ 
X 


V    A/\/v\A^    r^T'.A/s/sr^ 


9" 


egotistical  iu.scriptions  on  their  monuments,  but 
none  with  the  simple  force  and  directness  of  this 
of  Seuusert's.  We  seem,  indeed,  to  hear  in  it  an 
echo  of  tlie  inscriptions  assigned  to  Sesostris  and 
Osymandyas  l)y  the  Greek  historians.  And  if 
Senusert  talked  like  the  legendary  Sesostris,  his 
visage,  as  shown  in  these  statues,  is  very  much 
what  we  may  imagine  that  of  a  Sesostris  to  have 
been. 

The  king  stands  erect  before  the  gods  of  Deir 
el-Bahari,  Hathor  and  the  deified  Neb-hapet-Ra 
]\Ientuhetep,  with  his  hands  resting  before  him 
on  the  triangular  apron  of  his  waist-cloth.  lie 
wears  the  klaft  and  uraeus,  but  is  without  the 
false  beard.  On  the  belt  of  the  waist-cloth  is 
his  prenomen,  fQ^Yli  '^"^1  from  it  hangs  an 
ornament,  no  doubt  of  gold  and  jewel-beads, 
with  on  either  side  of  it  a  royal  uraeus.  Hanging 
bv  a  string  of  beads  from  his  neck  is  the  remark- 
able  pin  and  knot  amulet  which  is  seen  on  other 
statues  of  this  king  and  period.*  At  the 
back  of  each  figure  is  a  j^linth  with  the  royal 
titles  ;  "Ilorus  Neter-Kheperu  ("Divine  of 
Existences"),  insilij/n''  ["  King  of  Upper  and 
Lower  Egypt"),  Kiiakauha  ("The  doubles 
of  Pva  appear"),  given  life,  power,  and 
stability  like  Ua  for  ever."  Of  this  in- 
scription only  the  upper  part,  as  far  as  the 
end  of  the  second  cartouche,  is  preserved 
in  the  best  of  the  statues  :  the  completion 
we  know  from  the  lower  portion  of  one  in 
the  British  Museum  (see  below),  which  also 
shows  us  that  the  king  stood  in  conven- 
tional fashion  on  the  "Nine  Bows,"  repre- 
sentins  the  surrounding  barbarian  nations. 

■*  This  amulet  lias  been  discussed  by  Prof.  Waldemar 
Schmidt,  P.S.B.A.,  1906,  pp.  2(38,  209.  He  illustrates  a 
statue  in  the  Copenhagen  Glyptothek,  on  which  it  occurs. 
No  actual  specimen  of  it  has  ever  been  found.  We  do  not 
know  its  significance,  but  no  doubt  it  was  a  magical  "  pro- 
tection." At  this  period  it  appears  only  on  royal  statues, 
but  in  later  days  we  find  it  on  small  bronze  figures  of 
deities,  e.g.,  a  Ptolemaic  Harpokrates  in  the  Pierpont 
Morgan  Collection. 

'•'  We    now  know  the   proper  vocalization   of  the   signs 

C    2 


\ 


m 


71 


o 

Q 

uu 

u 

^- > 


o 


12 


THE  XIth   dynasty  TEMPLE   AT   DRTR   EL-BAHARI. 


Tlie  bodies  of  the  figures  are  strictly  con- 
ventional, and  the  nrnis  disproportionately 
long.  The  interest  of  the  statues  lies  entirely 
in  the  head.  AVe  notice  the  enormous  size 
of  the  ears  (a  characteristic  of  other  royal 
statues  of  this  period),  forced  forward  by 
the  folds  of  the  klaft ;  but  the  rest  of  the 
face  is  in  each  case  correctly  proportioned,  and 
evidently  as   faithful   a    portrait   as   the   artist 

TiSR  *'"  '"''"'  ^""O"^  "■  cuneiform  letter  found  at  Boghaz  Kyoi 
(Ranke,  Ahhamll.  k.  j).  AJcad.,  1910,  p.  10),  which  reproduces 
the  phrase  as  insibya.  The  apparent  transposition  of  the  n 
and  s  in  the  value  of  the  sign  I  has  been  explained  by  Setiie, 
A.Z.,  xli.x.  (1911),  p.  15  ft'.,  who  has  shown  that  the  value  of 
X  is  not  stn  {suten)  but  nst  [uenut),  the  word  being  n-gt,  and 
meaning  originally  "  Possessor  of  the  Reed." 


could  achieve.  In  the  treatment  of  the  uraeus 
the  Cairo  statue  differs  somewhat  from  the  rest : 
on  this  head  it  is  smaller  than  on  the  others. 
This  may  perhaps  be  a  point  in  favour  of  the 
view,  which  might  be  urged,  that  the  Cairo 
statue  was  executed  by  a  different  sculptor,  a 
man  without  the  force  of  the  artist  who  achieved 
the  splendid  portrait  of  the  London  head  which 
is  next  to  that  at  Cairo  on  Plate  XXI. 

The  heads  of  two  and  the  legs  of  all  the 
figures  have  entirely  disappeared.  The  feet  of 
one  were  recovered,  and  are  in  the  British 
Museum  (no.  7G8).  The  two  headless  torsos 
remain  at  Deir  el-Bahari. 

Originally  the  statues  must  have  stood  about 
six  feet  in  height.  Those  in  London  measure,  as 
they  are  now,  from  4  ft.  to  4  ft.  G  ins.  in  height. 
The  material  of  all  is  black  granite. 


i:! 


CHAPTER    IV. 

THE    SMALLER    OBJECTS. 
By  II.  R.  Hall. 


The  smaller  objects  of  the  Xlth  Dynasty  found 
in  the  tombs  of  the  princesses  have  already  been 
described  in  Part  I.  No  other  objects  of  the 
same  date  as  the  building  of  the  temple  were 
found,  with  the  possible  exception  of  a  fragment 
of  pottery  discovered  beneath  the  red  granite 
eastern  threshold  ;  this  has  already  been  illus- 
trated in  Part  I.,  PI.  X. 

The  enormous  number  of  small  objects  found 
loose  in  the  rubbish  overlying  the  building  date 
for  the  most  part  to  the  period  of  the  XVIIIth 
and  XlXth  Dynasties.  Tliose  found  in  the  dust- 
layer  immediately  overlying  the  Platform  seem 
to  be  exclusively  of  the  XVIIIth  Dynasty. 
Higher  up  in  the  dust  here  were  found  baskets, 
wooden  mallets,  and  other  implements  of  the 
destroyers  who  pulled  the  temple  to  pieces  in 
late  Ramesside  times,  as  well  as  occasional  poor 
burials  and  packets  of  viscera,  &c.,  in  pots,  buried 
in  the  ruins  at  a  still  later  date.  Above  every- 
thing, and  close  to  the  great  temple  in  which 
the  Coptic  monastery  of  St.  Phoebammou  was 
established,  were  discovered  the  contents  of  a 
Coptic  dust-heap,  chiefly  ostraka. 

Farther  east,  in  the  lower  Colonnades,  were 
found  a  large  number  of  sketches  on  slips  of 
limestone  which  are  Ramesside,  and  still  farther 
eastward  Demotic  ostraka  and  fragments  of 
XXXth  Dynasty  iishabtis. 

The  XVIIIth  Dynasty  Votive  Offerings. 

Of  all  these  smaller  objects  the  most  import- 
ant are  the  XVIIIth  Dynasty  votive  offerings, 
summarily  described  in  Pt.  I.,  p.  17.     These  are 


usually  connected  with  the  worship  of  Hathor, 
and  only  in  a  minor  degree  with  that  of  Amen- 
Ra,  or  that  of  the  deified  king  Mentuhetep. 
It  would  seem  that  they  are  the  relics  of  the 
innumerable  offerings  of  the  common  people  to 
the  rock-cut  shrine  of  the  great  goddess  of  Deir 
el-Bahari,  which,  when  damaged  or  broken,  or 
when  the  shrine  became  too  full  of  them,  were 
cast  out  by  the  sacristans  chiefly  into  the  de- 
serted courts  of  the  funerary  temple  of  Mentu- 
hetep below,  though  a  certain  number  of  similar 
objects  were  found  during  the  excavation  of  the 
Great  Temple  itself  The  offerings  are  made  of 
cheap  materials,  blue  glazed  steatite  or  faience, 
wood,  and  bronze.  Those  of  ivory  and  the 
precious  metals  were  naturally  not  thrown  away. 
The  presence  of  unfinished  objects  may  possibly 
point  to  the  existence  of  a  regular  factory  of 
votive  offerings  close  by ;  even  glazed  faience 
seems  to  have  been  fabricated  within  the  sacred 
precincts.  We  can  imagine  a  town  of  booths  for 
the  sale  of  these  offerings  crowding  round  the 
famous  sanctuary,  as,  for  instance,  they  crowd 
round  such  a  modern  holy  place  as  the  Austrian 
Mariazell. 

That  these  otierings  should  be  of  the  time  of 
the  XVIIIth  Dynasty,  the  most  flourishing 
period  of  Hathor's  sanctuary,  is  natural  enough. 
The  majority  can  be  dated  between  the  reigns  of 
Amenhetep  I.  and  Amenhetep  II.,  not  only  by 
their  general  style,  and  especially  by  the  colour 
of  the  blue  faience  of  which  they  are  made,  but 
also  by  the  fact  that  almost  all  the  scarabs 
found  among  them,  and  all  the  other  inscribed 
objects,    are    demonstrably    of  this    date.      The 


14 


THE  XItu   dynasty  TEMPLE   AT  DEIR  EL-BAIIARI. 


make  and  style  of  a  scarab  of  the  first  half  of 
the  XVIIIth  Dynasty  is  unmistakeable,  and  of 
all  those  found  during  the  excavation  of  Mentu- 
hetep's  temple,  only  one,  which  bears  the  name 
of  Khakaura  Senusrit  III.,  is  older  than  this 
pci'iod.'  No  scarabs  of  later  date  than  the  reign 
of  Amenhcteji  II.  at  latest  were  found.  The 
characteristic  scarabs,  rings,  and  utjtit-cyea  of 
the  reign  of  Amenhetep  III.,  so  common  in  the 
ruins  of  his  palace  near  JMcdinet  Ilabu,  are  re- 
presented by  one  broken  specimen,  and  nothing 
whatever  of  the  XlXth  Dynasty  was  discovered. 
The  commonest  royal  name  is,  as  might  have 
been  expected,  that  of  Hatshepsu,  whi(;h  occurs 
also  inscribed  on  cartouche-shaped  plaques  of 
characteristic  style,  and  inscribed  on  mciuits  (the 
1  emblem  of  Hathor). 

The  votive  cows,  heads  of  Ilathor,  and  so 
forth,  are  of  the  same  glaze  and  faience  as  these 
scarabs,  plaques,  and  7ncn<tts,  and  were  always 
found  with  them.  Further,  the  scarabs  were 
often  found  strung  with  these  votive  objects 
and  with  beads  of  the  same  (glazed  faience  to 
form  a  necklace  to  be  presented  to  the  goddess  ; 
a  typical  example  is  no.  41134  of  the  British 
Museum  (PI.  XXV.,  in  Fig.  2). 

There  can  therefore  be  no  doubt  as  to  the  ase 
of  the  majority  of  these  offerings,  which  are 
characteristic  of  the  worship  of  Hathor  during 
the  first  half  of  the  XVIIIth  Dynasty,  and  are 
found  not  only  at  Deir  el-Bahari,  but  at  Hatlior- 
shrines  at  places  so  far  apart  as  Sarabit  el-Khadim 
in  Sinai"  and  Faras  in  Nubia  on  the  border  of 
the  Sudan. ^  The  blue  glaze  amulets  from  Sinai 
and  Nul)ia  arc  exactly  the  same  as  those  from 
Deir  el-Bahari. 


'  A  spherical  blue  faience  head  with  the  name  of 
Sankhkara,  now  in  the  liritish  Museum  (no.  41138),  was 
apparently,  hut  not  certainly,  found  in  the  temple.  The 
scarab  of  Senusrit  III.  is  contemporary  with  that  king;  it 
bears  unmistakable  signs  of  long  wear. 

-  Petuie,  Researches  in  Sinai. 

^  As  is  shown  by  the  recent  excavations  of  Mr.  P.  Ll. 
Griffith. 


The  commonest  offering  of  all  was  a  figure  of 
the  Ilathor-cow,  either  in  the  round  or  in  relief, 
inci-sed,  or  in  outline,  on  a  plaque  pierced  for 
suspension.  The  figures  in  the  round  are  of 
wood,  rough  clay  baked  or  unbaked,  and  of  fine 
blue  faience.  They  vary  in  excellence  from  a 
sliapeless  lump  of  clay  round  a  stick  and  crudely 
painted,  to  a  fine  little  figure  of  blue  glazed 
faience,  often  with  the  name  of  the  goddess  in 
black.  The  wooden  cows  are  often  much  larger 
than  the  pottery  ones.  The  plaques  are  of 
green  and  blue  glazed  steatite  and  faience,  and 
of  thin  bronze.  The  steatite  plaques  are  often 
of  very  quaint  and  crude  workmanship ;  one 
relief  plaque,  which  is  left  unglazed,  might 
indeed  hardly  be  taken  for  Egyptian  work  at  all. 
On  this  object,  as  on  others  of  the  same  kind, 
we  see  the  cow  in  a  papyrus-brake,  as  she  is  so 
coustantly  represented.  In  others  (*'.//.,  B.M., 
no.  41059),  incised,  we  see  two  cows,  face  to 
face,  with  a  budding  lily  between  them. 

The  goddess  is  not  represented  in  human 
form.  The  numerous  nude  female  figures  of 
baked  clay  and  of  blue  faience,  with  prominent 
breasts,  are  symbolical  of  the  worship  of  Ilathor; 
we  may  call  theni  Ilathoric  figures,  but  they  are 
not  figures  of  Ilathor.  Her  human  face  with 
cow's  ears,  in  the  conventional  fetish-form, 
occurs,  of  course,  constantly,  usually  as  part  of 
an  imitation  sistrum,  of  blue  fiiience,  once  (B.M., 
no.  47797)  of  ebony  (?).  The  faience  Hathor- 
heads  are  sometimes  very  well  made.  The  crude 
forms  are  very  interesting,  and  a  series  of  four, 
showing  a  eirsccmlo  of  crudity,  is  in  the  B.M. 
(nos.  41088—41091).  These  have  the  heavy 
volute  locks  at  the  side  of  the  face,  derived  from 
a  female  coiffure  of  the  Xllth  Dynasty,  but 
some  of  the  finest  are  without  these  appendages. 

Both  the  cow  and  the  head  appear  very  often 
on  the  fine  votive  bowls,  of  which  only  fragments 
have  naturally  been  found  in  the  dust-heap  of 
the  shrine  (PI.  XXVII. ,  Fig.  2).  Here  the  cow 
is  always  shown  with  the  stars  upon  her  tianks, 
as  in  the  great  image  discovered  in   190G  ;    in 


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front  of  her  neck  hangs  the  great  ornament  of 
the  ncckhicc,  which  is  counterwcighted  by  the 
mcndt  behind. 

The  sacred  cow  occurs  also  in  the  round  as 
an  ornament  on  the  edges  of  vases  of  coarse 
earthenware,  the  curious  vessels  rescmliling  the 
Greek  kcrnol,  of  which  many  fragments  have 
been  found.  These  wei'e  certainly  votive.  Round 
the  edge  of  a  large  bowl  were  perched  numerous 
small  model  vases,  often  of  sack-like  form,  and 
usually  alternating  with  the  rude  figures  of  the 
cow  (PI.  XXXII.  16).  Another  form  was  a 
hollow  rinjj  on  which  vases  and  cows  larger  than 
those  on  the  bowls  were  placed.  The  pottery 
was  sometimes  left  unpainted,  sometimes  painted 
with  red,  blue,  and  yellow  stripes.  It  has  been 
suggested  that  the  miniature  vases  were  used  to 
burn  incense,  as  some  of  them  show  traces  of 
fire  within.  The  poor  devotee  would  buy  one  of 
these  kernol  or  ring-stands  with  the  cups  and 
cows  upon  it,  and  offer  it  to  the  goddess  with 
the  incense  of  his  supplication  burning  before 
her  miniature  images. 

Other  votive  crocks  of  the  same  style  were 
rough  double  or  triple  vases  (fWl)  ,  joined  to- 
gether at  the  neck  and  base.  A  third  type  was 
decorated  with  painted  knobs  and  button-like 
rosettes  representing  flowers,  projecting  from 
the  edges  of  the  pot  often  to  a  distance  of  half 
an  inch  or  more  (PI.  XXIII.  3).  This  pottery  is 
very  interesting  in  its  evident  imitation  of  the 
great  gold  vases,  with  the  flowers  springing 
from  them,  which  we  see  depicted  on  the 
walls  of  XVIIIth  Dynasty  tombs ;  the  yellow 
paint  with  which  it  is  plentifully  besmeared  is 
sufficient  evidence  of  what  it  was  intended  to 
represent :  it  was  the  best  imitation  of  the 
oflerings  of  the  great  that  the  poor  fellah  could 
afford  to  buy.  The  flowers  are  usually  blue,  in 
imitation  of  lapis  lazuli  or  turquoise.^     Interest- 

'  Incidentally  it  may  be  noted  tliat  this  pottery,  with  its 
projecting  flowers,  is  an  argmnent  against  the  theory  that 
would  make  the  long-stalked  flowers  represented  .springing 


ing,  also,  is  the  elaboration  in  the  kmioi  of  little 
pots  superimposed  upon  big  pots,  which  has 
survived  in  the  work  of  the  village  potter  of 
Upper  Egypt  to  this  day  ;  and  the  great  mud 
cups,  sometimes  standing  five  feet  high,  which 
the  fellah  erects  in  the  yard  of  his  hovel  to  act 
as  cupboards  (and  also  safe  roosts  for  children, 
fowls,  and  dogs,  which  snakes  and  scorpions 
cannot  scale),  are  often  decorated  in  the  same 
way  with  rows  of  small  cups  along  the  edge,  and 
sometimes  each  of  these  has  its  own  set  of 
miniatures  on  its  rim. 

A  form  of  votive  offering  peculiar,  apparently, 
to  Deir  el-Bahari,  is  a  cloth,  usually  measuring 
several  inches  across,  covered  with  a  thin  plaster 
paste,  on  which  are  painted  scenes  connected 
with  the  worship  of  Ilatlior  and  also  of  Nel)- 
hepet-Ra  jMeutuhetep.  We  see  the  devotees  re- 
presented, sometimes  with  their  families,  offering 
to  the  Holy  Cow  or  to  the  solitary  figure  of  the 
deified  king,  sometimes  to  both.  Some  fine 
specimens  of  these  votive  cloths^  seem  to  have 
been  found  here  by  natives  in  past  years.  Those 
found  during  the  course  of  the  present  excava- 
tions are  of  a  smaller  type,  on  which  only  the 
cow  and  the  devoter  appear,  often  the  cow  alone. 

One,  a  long  fringed  cloth,  19  ins.  by  Sins., 
narrower  at  one  end  than  at  the  other, 
shows  five  women  ofterinij  to  the  cow,  who 
appears  coming  out  of  the  mountain.  Their 
names,  mostly  illegible,  are  written  above. 
On  another,  a  square  piece  (diam.  7^  ins.),  we 
see  the  offering  of  the  lady  Nubemari  to 
Hathor,    who    is    represented    in    human    form, 


from  the  gold  vases  in  the  frescos  mere  attempts  to  re- 
present the  internal  decoration  of  the  vases.  We  may 
doubt  if  the  projecting  flowers  were  so  long-stalked  as  tliey 
are  represented  as  being  ;  and  possibly  they  really  projecterl 
not  vertically  but  laterally,  as  in  these  humble  ceramic 
imitations,  but  the  artist  could  not  represent  them  except 
as  vertical.  In  any  case  the  vases  thus  decorated  could  be 
of  no  practical  use,  but  were  merely  splendid  works  of  art, 
which  the  pottery  ex-votos  of  the  fcllahin  followed  longo 
inlcrvaUo. 

''  In  the  collection  of  Mr.  H.  de  Uustafjaell. 


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THE  XIth   dynasty  TEMPLE   AT  DEIR  EL-BAHARI. 


r^ 


i 


seated  on  a  throne.  Above  is  the  inscription 
.  ,;_-,  .  On  a  third  (measuring  7  ins. 
H  w  i  across),  more  delicately  painted, 
we  see  a  similar  offering  by  a 
lady,  whose  name  is  effaced,  to 
the  cow  "  Hathor  in  Thebes,"  who  is  shown 
amid  the  bulruslics.  Behind  the  worshipper  is 
the  sacred  persea-tree.  The  colours  used  in  these 
painted  offerings  are  red,  yellow,  blue,  and  black. 
The  nude  female  figures  already  referred  to 
were  a  very  usual  form  of  votive  offering 
(PI.  XXIV.  2).  They  are  more  generally  made 
of  common  earthenware  than  of  glazed  ware, 
and  vary  greatly  in  style  :  the  finest  are  often 
very  pretty  (('.//.  B.M.,  no.  41107).  The  usual 
conception  is  that  of  a  female  figure  with  a 
curious  circular  concave  head-dress,  with  a  row 
of  holes  along  its  upper  edge,  frtmi  which  beads 
were  intended  to  dangle.  At  the  sides  of  the 
face  are  the  folds  of  a  sort  of  hood.  This  fine 
type,  also  found  at  Faras,  is  coarsened  into  the 
broad-hipped,  goggle-eyed  monstrosity  of  the 
general  type,  known  also  from  Mesopotamia, 
Cyprus,  and  other  lands,  as  well  as  from  Egypt. 
In  the  fine  type  the  breasts  are  not  very  pro- 
minent ;  in  the  coarser  they  are  huge,  and  some- 
times they  have  a  convoluted  object  twisted  round 
them,  which  may  be  a  necklace  or  a  snake,  and 
reminds  us  strongly  of  the  Cretan  bare-breasted 
snake-goddess,  of  whom  images  were  found  by 
Sir  Arthur  Evans  at  Knossos.  The  breasts 
occur  as  an  amulet,  either  separately  or  together 
on  a  plaque.  Among  the  small  votive  amulets  the 
■inendt,  or  counterweight  of  a  necklace,  which  is 
commonly  represented  on  figures  of  the  sacred 
cow,  became  a  regular  emblem  of  the  goddess,  and 
is  found  here  in  faience  and  wood.  The  faience 
mendts  are  inscril)ed,  usually  with  names  or  titles 
either  of  the  goddess  or  of  Queen  Ilatshepsu.  The 
wooden  ones  are  very  roughly  made,  and  have 
little  ornament  but  one  or  two  stripes  of  red  paint. 
The  small  plaques  of  thin  bronze,  usually 
pierced  for  suspension,  which  have  already  been 
mentioned  ;i,rc  common  here.      Besides  the  figure 


of  the  cow,  a  common  device  upon  them  is  the 
double  ufjdt,  ^^^^,  often  with  the  sign  I 
between,  ^^I^^§,-  The  human  car,  ^,  often 
occurs'  (PI.  XXIV.  4,  5). 

This  ear,  and  the  eye  as  well  in  its  simple 
form,  <2>-,  arc  common  as  separate  amulets, 
sometimes    in    bronze,    once    in    wood    (B.M.), 


usually  in  blue  glazed  ware.  Sometimes  the 
eye  and  ear  are  together  on  a  faience  plaque 
(B.M.,  no.  41079).  They  occur  at  Faras  also. 
It  is  possible  that  they  were  dedicated  as  votives 
for  the  cure  of  deafness  and  blindness,  but  more 
probable  that  they  are  pictorial  supplications  to 
the  deity  to  hear  the  petitions  and  watch  over 
the  safety  of  the  devotee.  Perhaps  the  two 
ideas  were  confused.  In  modern  times  exactly 
similar  amulets,  of  silver,  are  made  and  used  in 
Greece  ;  and  these  are  certainly  devoted  in  order 
to  obtain  the  cure  of  disease." 

The  ear  and  the  eye  appear  in  the  cults  of 
other  deities  besides  Hathor,  notably  Ptah  at 
]\Iemphis.^  The  other  amulets  here  mentioned 
are,  however,  exclusively  Hathoric,  or  have  a 
possible  connection  with  Amen ;  amulets  ex- 
clusively connected  with  other  deities,  such  as  the 
u  of  Osiris,  never  occur  at  Deir  el-Bahari. 

It  has  been  observed  (p.  14,  above)  that  the 
scarabs  were  often  found  strung  with  beads,  and 
the  same  is  the  case  with  many  of  the  amulets, 
plaques,  &c.  In  all  prol)ability  they  were  usually 
worn  on  the  person,  and  we  can  imagine  the 
ancient  peasant  carrying  his  faience  amulet  in  a 

1  Several  .small  pl.aques  of  this  type  liave  been  in  tlie 
Louvre  for  many  years,  but  they  do  not  seem  to  be  of 
frequent  occurrence  in  other  collections. 

-  In  Greece  the  usage  is  ancient  enough :  small  oye.s  and 
ears  of  the  same  kind  as  those  found  at  Deir  el-Bahari, 
but  of  gold,  were  found  in  the  archaic  Artemis-temple  at 
Epbesus  (Vlll-VIIth  cent.  li.c).  Specimens  are  in  the 
British  Museum  (Hor.AnTii,  Ephesuti,  p.  108,  PI.  vii. ; 
Marshall,  B.M.  Catalogue  uf  Jewelleri/,  p.  70,  PI.  ix.). 

^  PuTKiE,  Memphis,  I.,  pp.  7,  8 ;  Pis.  ix.-xiii.  On  a 
stele  in  the  British  Museum  (no.  27G),  which  came  from 
the  Belmore  Collection  in  1843,  we  see  four  eyes  and  two 
ears  behind  the  seated  figure  of  Haroeris,  "  lord  of  heaven, 
prince  of  the  circle  of  tlio  gods." 


THE    SMALLER   OBJECTS. 


17 


leather  case  tied  rouud  him,  just  as  his  modern 
descendant  does,  or  the  child  with  liis  little 
bronze  plaque  hanging  from  a  string  of  beads 
round  his  neck.  Those  found  at  Deir  el-Bahari 
were  either  stock  of  the  priestly  vendors  as  yet 
unbought,  or  had  been  dedicated  by  their  owners, 
who  no  doubt  immediately  replaced  them  by 
successors,  as  no  Egyptian  would  go  long  without 

his  y,  or  "protection,"  and  liked  to  wear  almost 

as  many  amulets  in  life  as  he  did  when  dead. 

The  small  necklaces  over  which  the  amulets 
were  often  found  strung  consist  usually  of  dark 
and  sky-blue  "faience"'  beads,  spherical,  discoid, 
or  cylindrical.  Blue  glass  and  glass  paste 
spherical  beads  were  also  found.  The  spherical 
beads  of  faience  are  sometimes  corrugated,  and 
these  are  often  double  or  triple.  Long  seg- 
mental beads  occur,*  of  an  interesting  type 
identical  with  similar  "faience"  or  "frit"  beads 
found  in  deposits  of  the  Middle  Bronze  Age  in 
Crete  and  in  AVestern  Europe,  even  so  far  as 
Britain,  as  for  example  at  Lake  and  Tan  Hill,  in 
Wiltshire.^  There  can  be  little  doubt  that  the 
blue  segmental  l)eads  from  Lake  and  Tan  Hill 
arc  of  Egyptian  make,  and  so  date  at  earliest  to 
a])Out   1500  }!.c.      They  are   found   in   Egypt  as 

'  I  retain  the  word  "faience"  for  the  Egyptian  glazed 
ware,  on  account  of  its  convenience,  though  Mr.  Burton 
has  recently  pointed  out  (Jonrn.  R.  Sac.  Arts,  vol.  Ix.  (1912), 
pp.  593  ff.)  that  the  Egyptian  ware  is  not  a  true  faience  at 
all,  but  practically  sand,  held  together  hy  some  gum  or  other 
binding  material.  This  view  seems  more  or  less  in  agree- 
ment with  that  of  Prof.  v.  Bissing,  who  describes  Egyptian 
"  faience "  as  "  eine  stark  kieselsandhaltige  Masse  mit 
einer  blaugrunen  Kupferglasur"  ((7a<.  Gen.  Musee  du  Cairo: 
Fnyenccge/asse,  p.  vii.).  Other  colours  besides  blue-green 
were  of  course  used  at  certain  periods,  notably  the  end  of 
the  XVIIIth  Dynasty.  But  at  Deir  el-Bahari,  in  the 
time  of  llatshepsu  and  Thothmes  III.,  they  are  still  rare. 

-  B.M.,  no.  48101,  a  necklace,  contains  good  specimens 
(PI.  XXVIII.  8). 

■*  See  Sril.  Mus.  Guide :  Antiquities  of  the  Bronze  Age, 
p.  96  ;  Evans,  Proc.  Sac.  Ant.,  xxii.  (1908),  p.  127  ;  Aber- 
CROMBY,  Journ.  Anihrop.  Inst.,  xxxv.  (190.5),  pp.  256  fT. ; 
Bronze  Age  Pottery  of  Great  Britain  and  Inland  (Oxford, 
1912),  p.  66.  These  beads  are  often  erroneously  described 
as  being  of  glass. 


late  as  about  1200  B.C.,  probably.  That  they 
were  imported  into  Britain  long  after  the  period 
1500-1200  B.C.  is  hardly  likely. 

"Barrel"  beads  of  faience  are  less  common: 
they  often  have  fragments  of  turquoise  blue 
glass  powdered  on  their  glaze.  The  discoid 
beads  were  often  elaborately  strung,  so  as  to 
present  their  faces,  not  their  edges.  The  strings 
are  sometimes  of  plaited  leather.  Innumerable 
loose  beads  were  found,  so  many  that,  coupled 
with  the  fact  that  they  are  often  unfinished  and 
that  unperforated  drops  and  sticks  of  glaze  occur, 
it  has  been  surmised  that  a  factory  of  blue 
glaze  may  have  existed  here,  on  the  spot,  in  the 
temple.  This  is  not  impossible.  A  curious  form 
of  bead,  common  here,  is  made  of  small  pieces  of 
reed  bent  into  shape  (PI.  XXVIL  6).  The  ends 
of  the  necklaces  were  usually  formed  by  large 
hollow  balls  of -faience  (measuring  1  in.  to  1|-  in. 
diameter),  with  segmental  decoration  in  dark 
and  light  blue.  Before  the  present  excavations, 
the  purpose  of  the  balls  of  this  kind  which  had 
been  discovered  elsewhere  was  unknown,  and 
they  were  often  supposed  to  have  been  orna- 
ments suspended  from  ceilings  (like  the  ostrich- 
eggs  of  the  Arabs).  We  see,  however,  from 
specimens  actually  found  at  the  ends  of  necklaces 
here,''  what  their  real  purpose  was.  A  peculiar 
use  for  broken  cylindrical  beads  was  found  by 
sticking  them  into  circular  cakes  of  mud,  Hat 
above  and  rouud  lielow  (having  been  made  in  a 
pot),  which  were  a  common  votive  offering  of  the 
poorest.  There  can  be  little  doubt  that  these 
objects  are  intended  to  represent  loaves  of  bread. 

All  kinds  of  small  thincrs  in  blue  faience  were 
found  besides  those  mentioned  above — models 
of  persea  fruit,  bunches  of  dark  grapes,  trefoil 
pendants,  tiny  ostrich-feather  fans,  u/ja(-eyes, 
rosettes,  and  so  forth,  innumerable. 

The  blue  glazed  faience  bowls  seem  to  have 
been  as  great  a  feature  of  the  votive  offerings  at 
Deir  el-Bahari  as  were  the  amulets  and  figures  of 


B.M.,  no.  4112(5. 


D 


18 


THE   XItu  dynasty  TEMPLE   AT   DEIR   EL-BAHARI. 


the  goddess.  Usually  they  were  plain  bowls  of 
the  same  general  type  as  the  magnificent  perfect 
specimen  in  the  British  Museum  (no.  4790).  Only 
fragments  were  found  (Pis.  XXVI.,  XXVII.  2). 
Moustache-cups  (with  ledges  on  the  rims)  occur. 
Besides  the  cows  and  Ilatlior-heads  already  men- 
tioned, the  designs  consisted  chiefly  of  repre- 
sentations of  fish,  papyrus-plants,  spiral,  zigzag, 
and  scale  desisxns.  The  scales  and  zigzags,  in 
alternating  dark  and  light  blue  inlay  (PI.  XXVI., 
in  Figs.  2,  .3),  almost  like  chnsonni'  enamel,  are 
very  characteristic.  Flat  tiles  or  plaques  in  l)lue 
glaze,  some  intended  for  inlaying,  are  common. 

Fragments  of  unglazed  painted  ware  vases 
were  found,  often  decorated  witli  polychrome 
plant-designs  recalling,  noii  lont/o  intervdllo,  the 
contemporary  naturalistic  plant-designs  of  the 
Cretan  pottery  of  the  first  Late  Minoan  period. 
The  Egyptian  designs  can  perhaps  hardly  be  called 
really  naturalistic,  except  in  .so  far  as  the  treat- 
ment of  the  leaves  and  flowers  arc  concerned  ; 
each  plant  springs  from  a  conventional  base,  and 
is  placed  with  its  fellows  in  a  formal  row,  after  the 
manner  of  a  wall-dado  (PI.  XXVII.  5).  But  it 
is  evident  that  the  naturalistic  Minoan  designs 
were  inspired  by  Egyptian  designs  of  this  type.^ 

Interesting  relics  of  the  XVIIIth  Dynasty  are 
the  shells  found  in  the  deposit  of  votive  ofl'er- 
ings.  The  fruits  comprise  dum,  date,  fig,  and 
nutmeg.  The  last  must  have  come  from  the 
East,  and  it,  with  several  of  the  shells,  may  well 
be  relies  of  Ilatshepsu's  expedition  to  Punt.  One 
or  two  bits  of  coral  and  r7//^/-gum,  also  found, 
can  with  little  doubt  be  ascribed  to  this  source. 

The  XIXth  Dynasty  Tools,  &c. 
It  has  been  pointed  out  (Part  I.,  p.  IG)  that 
the  numerous  tools,  baskets,  &c.,  found  amid  the 

1  A  fragment  showing  a  hii-d  Hying  among  tamarisks, 
from  Phylakopi  in  Melos  (B.M.,  no.  40973),  is  suggestive 
of  the  egyptizing  designs  of  birds  among  reeds.  B.M., 
nos.  40975 — 7  .show  typical  polychrome  representations  of 
flowers.  On  no.  10978  spots  of  the  uncommon  colour 
green  occur. 


stone  chips  above  the  stratum  containing  the 
votive  offerings  must  be  of  Ramesside  date,  as  it 
is  only  after  the  reign  of  Ramesses  II.  that  the 
destruction  of  the  temple  can  have  been  begun. 
These  objects  are  of  well-known  types — wooden 
mallets  and  levers,  hoes,  baskets,  and  so  forth. 
Their  good  state  of  preservation  is  remarkable, 
especially  in  the  case  of  the  ba.skets  and  mats 
(PI.  XXVIII.).  Even  cakes  of  bread  and  a 
small  bird,  relics  of  the  workmen's  meals,  were 
found  in  the  debris.  A  fine  three-cornered  loaf 
(PI.  XIX.)  is  po.ssibly  of  earlier  date  ;  perhaps 
thrown  out  of  a  violated  Xlth  Dynasty  tomb. 

Specially  worthy  of  note  are  (PI.  XXIX.)  a 
fine  copper  chisel  with  hardened  edge,  now  at 
Cairo,  a  small  graving  tool  mounted  in  a  wooden 
handle  (possibly  of  the  XVIIIth  Dynasty,  and 
used  for  cutting  the  fine  hieroglyphs  in  Ilat- 
shepsut's  temple),  and  a  mallet  (Brit.  J\[us.,  no. 
41187)  with  the  owner's  mark,  +^A 

To  the  same  period,  or  perhaps  rather  earlier, 
the  time  of  Rameses  II.'s  restorations,  belong 
the  numerous  slips  of  limestone  (dahsh),  usually 
called  ostraka,  with  artist's  sketches  upon  them. 
AVe  sec  designs  for  ceiling-decorations,  a  bullock 
walking,  a  man  "  smelling  the  ground  "  (before 
Pharaoh),  a  king  or  noble  seated  on  a  throne 
beneath  which  is  an  ape,  and  other  similar 
pictures.  The  numerous  similar  "ostraka"  with 
hieratic  inscriptions,  which  date  from  the  XVIIIth 
to  the  XXth  Dynasty,  must,  owing  to  want  of 
•space,  be  reserved  for  future  publication.  I  may, 
however,  mention  here  a  hieratic  note  of  the 
XVIIIth  Dynasty,  which  is  curious  ;  it  reads — 


//A 


(i^MajLi^ 


'?7«*^t> 


.«»- 


^^qpi^-riiT 


°3«^.<-.-^ 


Ill 


^    I 


THE    SMALLER   OBJECTS. 


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"  Let  the  Assyrian  who  is  working  turquoise  (or, 
making  [artificical]  turquoise)  come  with  him." 
Tliis  mention  jit  Thebes  of  an  Assyrian,  pro- 
bably a  slave  captured  in  one  of  the  I'accie  of 
Thothmes  I.,  is  interesting. 

Other  miscellaneous  inscribed  objects  of  the 
XVIIIth  Dynasty  were  found,  such  as  jar-scal- 
ings  (one  with  the  name  of  Queen  Alcritamou) 
and  funerary  cones.  The  latter  had  evidently' 
been  thrown  or  washed  out  of  tombs  of  the 
XVIIIth  or  XXVIth  Dynasties  on  the  hill  of 
Shekli  'Abd  cl-Kurna,  and  in  the  Hat  of  the 
Asasif,'  and,  as  they  have  nothing  to  do  with 
Deir  el-Bahari,  are  not  published  here. 

Later  Ohjects. 

The  objects  of  the  later  Pharaonic  period 
found  are  not  very  interesting.  The  cottins  from 
the  XXIst  Dynasty  Ijurials  in  the  graves  of  the 
Xlth  Dynasty  priestesses  have  already  been 
referred  to,  and  are  not  worth  further  descrip- 
tion. A  few  demotic  ostraka  of  the  Sai'te  period 
and  later  were  found,  some  funerary  cones, 
already  mentioned,  and  some  stray  XXVIth  and 
XXXth  Dynasty  usluildls,  thrown  out  of  the  big 
Sai'te  graves  on  the  Hat  close  by,  where  el-Asasif 
marches  with  Deir  el-Bahari.  Two  or  three 
Greek  ostraka  turned  up,  and  one  of  them  is 
worth  notice.  It  is  a  fragment  of  a  red  pot, 
inscribed  with  what  appears  to  be  the  end  of  a 
letter  containing  an  order,  perhaps  an  oracular 
"  direction  "  given  "  from  the  lord  Amenothes, 
the  very  great  god  ";  or  perhaps  a  simple  letter 
from  the  priest,  signed  as  coming  from  the  god. 
Amenothes  is  of  course  the  deified  sage  Amen- 
hetep,  son  of  Ilapu,  the  "  prime  minister "  of 
Amenhetep  III.,  who  had  long  been  popularly 
regarded  as  a  tutelary  daemon  of  Western 
Thebes,  and  appears,  confused  with  his  master 
the  king  Amenhetep,   in  the  pantheon   during 

1  Cones  of  Muntemhat  and  bits  of   ushabtis  of    Petu- 
umenapot  were  found. 


the  Ptolemaic  period.  Similarly,  the  earlier 
sage  lemhetep  had  been  made  a  god,  and  both 
he  and  Amenhetep  were  .specially  venerated  at 
Deir  el-Bahari,  where  the  new  facing  of  the  cella 
of  Hatshepsu's  temple,  put  in  by  Euergetes,  has 
in.scriptions  which  tell  us  much  more  of  Amen- 
hetep and  lemhctej:)  than  of  Ilathor  or  Amen. 
The  Greek  transcriptions  of  their  names  were 
Amenothes  and  Imouthes.  From  this  ostrakon 
it  is  evident  that  the  popular  cult  of  Amenothes 
(with  whom  even  Amen  himself  had  probably 
by  now  been  confused)  was  vigorous  at  the  end 
of  the  first  or  beginning  of  the  second  century 
A.D.,  to  which  the  writing  may  be  dated.  The 
text  reads  : — 


]   KanoL 

]   Tov  TTaai. 

a](f>aLpeTco<;  tov 

Trarepa  ei? 

Kwva  (uSe 

vapa  rov  Kvpt, 

ov  Ajxcvoi 

6ov  Qeov 

jxeyia- 

TOV 

The    scribe    originally    wrote     Trarepav,    but 

u  2 


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THE   XiTU   DYNASTY   TEMPLE   AT   DEIB   EL-BAHAEI. 


erased  the  superHuous  v.     €19  Kajva  must  mean 
"  to  Kos,"  the  modern  town  of  Kiis. 

An  unusual  object  of  the  later  period  is  a 
limestone  stela,  found  by  Mr.  Carter  at  the  close 
of  the  previous  excavations,  on  which  in  high 
relief  is  the  figure  of  a  naked  bearded  man, 
holding  in  his  right  hand  a  cestus,  and  in  his 
left  a  dagger.    Above  are  two  lines  of  inscription, 

iiiiiiiii    AOAIITIIC 

fiix  HATpoo  nAciiiiiov.     (B.M.,  no.  648.) 

This  "  athlete,"  whose  name  has  perished,  son 
of  Pasemis,  was  apparently  a  professional  boxer 
and  kind  of  gladiator ;  his  date  may  be  placed 
in  the  second  century  a.d.  He  is  a  strange 
figure  at  Deir  el-Bahari,  where,  however,  many 
monks  had  no  doubt  contended  for  tlie  proud 
titles  of  "  athlete  of  God  "  and  "  wrestler  of  the 
Spirit."  The  word  "  utlilete  "  was  used  by  the 
monks  in  this  "  spiritual "  sense,  but  in  the  case 
of  the  son  of  Pasemis  it  can  only  be  taken  in  its 
"carnal"  one. 

Coptic  Objects. 

The  Coptic  objects  (PI.  XXXIV.)  discovered 
were  thi'own  away  as  rubbish  by  the  monks  of  the 
monastery  of  St.  Phoebammon,  which  was  estab- 
lished over  the  ruins  of  tlie  temple  of  Hatshepsu. 
The  great  majority  of  these  objects  are  ostraka  of 
limestone  or  pottery  (chiefly  containing  letters 
to  the  monks,  tax-receipts,  &a),  which  had  been 
thrown  away  after  they  had  been  read.  We 
have,  in  fact,  found  the  contents  of  the  monastic 
waste-paper  basket.  These  letters  and  other 
documents  are  of  the  same  type  as  those  pre- 
viously discovered  here,  which  have  been  pub- 
lished by  Mr.  Crum  ^  and  by  the  present  writer,- 
They  date  from  the  seventh  and  eighth  centuries 
of  our  era.      The   letters  consist,  as  was  usual, 

'  W.  E.  CuujM,  Cojitic  Ostraha ;  special  publication  of 
the  Egypt  Exploration  Fund,  1902. 

-  H.  R.  Hall,  Coptic  and  Grech  Texts  from  Ostraka,  etc., 
in  the  British  Miisciiiit ;  printed  by  order  of  the  Trustees, 
190.5. 


r:TGk*Ai   iinooior' 

liOniCK/     AI'>A    AI'>|)AAM 


largely  of  the  honorific  greeting  of  the  sender  to 
the  receiver,  who  is  "  honoured  in  every  way  "  ; 
apologies  are  made  for  writing  on  stone  or 
pottery  in  default  of  paper  ('unio-ii  VA|vnic) ; 
and  so  on,  ending  with  the  address,  "  Give  it  to 
(taac  11)  So-and-So,  from  the  least  of  monks 
(eixTininAAxiGTOc  iiuoiiavoc)  So-and-So."  As 
specimens  I  may  give  the  following  here  :— 

AiioK  Yakcoii  "  I,  lakob, 

n."jii   niincviinioc  the  son  of  Pcsynthios, 

write  to  His  Holiness 
Bishop   Father    Abra- 
ham, 
xn  ni,"jAii(i-u);')T  ma'uot      saying:    if  I   see  my 

father 
nnm'iK)  (-:(|(0|)ii  Pe.synth[ios]    and    he 

sweareth 
riiipAM   rTnuic;  by  the  name  of  God, 

•l^()iio.\()r(-i  I  undertake 

X(H-iiiiv  iiTAAOoc  iiAK  to  couic  aud  tell  thee. 
AIIOK  Yakcob   leoud  I,  lakob,  agree 

Aoroi  (:-l-2oiioAonA  :  -|-  :     to  this  agreement" :  + : 

This  letter  is  addressed  to  the  energetic  Bishop 
Abraham  of  Erment,  who,  with  the  help  of  his 
secretary  Apa  Victor,  seems  practically  to  have 
ruled  Western  Thebes  in  the  middle  of  the 
seventh  century.  He  apparently  fixed  his  head- 
quarters in  the  monastery  of  Deir  el-Bahari. 
Another  letter  may  have  been  addressed  to  a 
superior  of  the  monastery.  It  is  an  urgent 
command  to  him  to  take  certain  men,  probably 
monks,  and  go  quickly  somewhere,  we  do  not 
know  for  what  purpose :  the  order  may  have 
come  from  the  bishop.      It  runs  :— 

'peK;'iAii,\i  nti'i  maa^,  b«i)k    "When  thou  hast  re- 
ceived this  tablet  go 
TAvir  iif<|r  r.ApiAc,"  iiiT      swiftly:  takeZa[cha?J- 

rias  and 
iiAiiKovK"  iAK(c)r.  iiM  Papkouk,  lakob  and 

.VAiiiiiA  iiuiGr.nKiiiATi  Daniel  and  lezekiel : 

r(;Tuiui)K  CBOA'  v.x  go  yc  forth,  for 

opcuTecrri  ye  are  to  find 

simiiiiiiiiii!        


THE    Sl\rALLKR   (IB.TIOCTS. 


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Another,  of  which  the  text  was  given  in  the 
Archaeological  Report  for  1903-4,  is  a  little  note 
from  one  priest  to  another,  asking  him  to  take  a 
service  for  him.  Such  are  typical  examples  of 
these  curious  documents,  which  throw  consider- 
ate light  on  the  life  of  the  Theban  monks  and 
fiilalun  in  the  days  immediately  preceding  the 
Saracen  conquest. 

The  other  Coptic  objects  are  of  the  usual 
kind  found  in  late  Roman  deposits  in  Egypt : 
bits  of  carved  furniture,  a  leaden  inkpot,  an 
iron  lamp,  iron  keys,  fragments  of  embroidered 
cloth,  and  so  forth ;  reminding  us  of  the  very 
similar  remains  found  by  Sir  M.  Aurel  Stein 
in  the  sand-buried  dwellings  and  rubbish- 
heaps  of  the  Niya  and  Endere  sites  in  Chinese 
Turkestan.^     One   object  of  great  interest  is  a 

*  See  Steik,  Ancient  Kholan  (Oxford,  1907),  and  Ruins 
of  Desert  Cathay  (London,  1912).  It  is  curious  to  see  the 
same  dominating  Roman  taste  evident  in  small  objects  of 
the  earlier  centuries  of  the  Christian  era  found  in  Chinese 
Turkestan  and  in  Egypt. 


piece  of  an  alabaster  canopic  jar,  dating  probably 

from   the  early  Ptolemaic   period,  which,   after 

it  had  been  thrown  out  of  its  tomb,  broken,  and 

cast   aside,  was  found  by   some  artistic  monk, 

who  drew  upon  it,  as  he  would  have  upon  an 

ostrakon,    a    picture    of    an    angel,    represented 

in    a    tlowing   garment   and  with   wings.      The 

style    is    good,    and    the    object    interesting,    in 

view    of    the    date    of    the    sketch,    which    is, 

no   doubt,   of   tlie    seventh   century  or    perhaps 

earlier. 

We   have   nothing   from  Deir  el-Bahari   that 

can    be    dated    later    than    the    eiglith    century 

ivjayia,    or    tax-receipts,    from    the    monastery 

dust-heap.     When  the  monastery  was  abandoned, 

Deir  el-Bahari  ceased  to  be  inhabited,  and  was 

left  by  the  Muslims  to  the  afrits,  tlie  ghosts  of 

those  who   had   built   its  two   splendid   temples 

and    of    their    successors    who    had    lived    from 

century    to    century    under    tlie    shadow    of   its 

mighty  cliffs. 

n.  R.  Hall. 


Note. — Tlie  author  of  this  chapter  lias  illustrated  it  chiefly  from  the  objects  assigned 
to  the  Britisli  IMusouiii  and  Oxford,  owing  to  his  inability  to  visit  tlio  numerous  otlior 
museums,  notably  tlioso  of  Aiiiorica,  to  which  largo  selections  of  tho  smaller  objects  from 
Deir  el-Bahari  wore  also  assigned. 


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TIIK    XIth    dynasty   TKMPLK    AT    DETR   EL-]!AIIA1U. 


CHAPTEK    V. 

DESCRIPTION     OF    THE     PLATES. 
By   E.    Navillk   and   II.    li    Hall. 


Pl.   I.     Statue  of  Sciiu-'O'it   J II.  in   the  Britisli 
Museum  (no.  G86);  page  10. 

Pis.  II.  and  III.  Painting  in  tlie  tomb  of 
Kemsit ;  page  9. 

PI.  IV.      1.   Statue  of  Tcta;  page  1. 

2.  Statue  of  JMcnklu'per  ;  page  2. 

3.  Statue  of  Aalimcs  called  Paten  ;  page  2. 

4.  Small  statue  of  Paiseru  ;  pages  5,  G. 

5.  Statue  of  Nedjcm  ;  page  7. 

G.  Fragment  of  a  crouching  limestone  statue. 
It  may  have  been  a  royal  statue,  since  it  is  said 
of  the  man  that  he  takes  the  atef  diadem,  and 
that  he  is  lord  of  the  double  crown. 

PI.  V.  1.  Lower  part  of  seated  statue  of 
Amenemliat ;  page  2. 

2.  Lower  part  of  a  small  model  staircase  ; 
page  4,  PI.  VIII.  D. 

3.  Torso  of  a  scribe  whose  name  i.s  not  known. 
The  first  cartouche  of  Amenophis  II.  is  on  his 
right  shoulder,  and  on  the  pouch  on  his  left 
the  name  of  what  seems  to  be  the  temple  of 
Amenophis  II.,  Aa-kheperu-Ra  mi-Amen,  of 
which  foundation-deposits  have  been  discovered 
by  Prof.  Petrie. 

4.  Small  fragment  of  a  stele  speaking  of  offer- 
ings to  Ameu-Ra,  Ilarmakhis,  and  Osiris. 

5.  Small  fragment  of  a  liynni  to  Ilarmakhis 
by  a  man  called  J^'tasi^'is,  probably  of  late  time. 

G.  Base  of  a  statuette  of  a  priest  called 
Aahnes. 

PI.  VI.      1.  Stele  of  Uslhat ;  page  3,  PI.  VIII.  e. 
2.  Stele  of  nUhum  ;  page  4,  PI.  VIII.  c. 


3.  Group  in  limestone  ;  page  3,  PI.  IX.  F. 

4.  Small  fragment.     A  priest  of  the  rank  of 

■  r  offers  a  wild  fowl  to  his  father,  who 

has   the   same   title,    and    to   his   mother,   who 
seems  to  jje  called  III  Ni'feru. 

PI.  VII.  1.  Pyramidiou  of  Dhuti  (Thoth). 
Early  XVIlIth  Dynasty  ;  page  5,  PI.  XI.  B. 

2.  Pyramidion  of  DjniicjW.  XVIII-XIXtli 
Dyna.sty  (Brit.  Mus.,  no.  493). 

3.  Fragment  of  a  stele  of  a  person  named 
Aakheperka,  priest  in  Astakhouit,  and  his  sons. 

4.  Foot  of  the  statue  of  Neferhotep.  "XVIIIth 
Dynasty. 

5.  Fragment  of  a  stele,  where  are  seen  two 
women,  who  may  be  either  the  daughters  or  the 
sisters  of  the  deceased.     Early  XVIIIth  Dynasty. 

G.   Fragment  of  a  stele  very  much  erased. 

7.  Part  of  a  stele,  showing  a  man  making 
libations  and  burning  incense  before  Hathor. 
XVIIIth  Dynasty. 

8.  Frafjment  of  a  stele.  A  king  is  seen 
between  a  sitting  goddess,  who  may  be  ]\Iut, 
and  Hathor  issuing  out  of  her  mountain. 
XVIIIth  Dynasty. 

Pis.  VIII. -XL  Inscriptions  belonging  to  the 
monuments  of  the  preceding  plates  ;  pages  1-8. 

E.  N. 


PI.  XII.  Fragments  of  sculptures  from  the 
temple  of  ]\Ientuhetep  similar  to  those  published 
in  Part  1.,  Pis.  XII.-XVI. 


DESCRIPTION   OF  PLATES. 


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1.  Dotails  of  the  headdress.  Au  actual  ex- 
ample of  this  Hower  headdress  is  iu  the  Leyden 
Museum.^ 

2.  Face  of  the  kincf  showinir  front  of  the 
same  headdress. 

3.  Profile  of  a  kiug  ;  iuscriptiou,  "Protection 
of  Life  around  him  !  " 

4.  Eoughly-cut  inscription,  "  Son  of  the  Sun, 
Mentu[lietcp]  ....,"  on  a  square  pier  of  coarse 
Ijrowii  sandstone.     From  a  colonnade. 

5.  Part  of  tlie  royal  name  in  tlie  coloured  high 
relief:  tine  limestone.     From  a  shrine. 

G.   Young  prince  (?)  being  led  by  a  tutor. 

7.  A  representation  of  the  god  Set.  Very 
rare  at  this  early  period. 

8.  Fragment  of  an  inscription  from  an 
architrave :    blue-grey    sandstone.       The    signs 

9.  Fine  limestone  fragment.  Row  of  kheker 
ornaments  above  the  word  "  incense." 

10.  The  snake  of  the  North,  Puto,  rises  from 
the  papyrus-plant. 

11.  Plant  decoration  :  convolvulus. 

PI.  XIII.  1.  Three  heads  of  foreign  enemies, 
one  behind  the  other. 

2,  3.  Foreign  enemies.  The  curious  necklaces 
are  remarkable.     (British  Museum.) 

4.  Oti'cring  a  liquid  to  a  princess.  This 
fragment  comes  from  one  of  the  shrines. 
(Ashmolean  Museum.)^ 

5.  Negro  bringing  tribute  of  a  precious  metal 

in  rings  ;  probably  r^  ascin  or  f'(tin,  pale  gold 

or   an    alloy   of  silver   and    gold.      (Ashmolean 
Museum.) 

6.  Egyptian  male  head. 

7.  Shows  how  the  ropes  were  tied  on  the 
boats. 


1  Cf.  BoKSEK,  A.  Z.,  xlv.  (1908),  p.  30. 

^  [These  foreigners  are  evidently  Semites  in  1 ,  and  those 
of  2  and  3  are  certainly  Libyans,  while  the  man  offerin" 
in  4  is  i)crhai)s  recognizable  by  his  turned-up  beard  as  a 
Puuitc,— H.  H.  11.] 


PI.  XIV.  1.  Xlth  Dynasty  sandstone  frag- 
ments of  female  figures  in  high  relief  as  pilasters 
in  the  outer  upper  colonnade  of  the  temple. 

2.  Large  limestone  fragment :  royal  lion 
treading  down  enemies.  Found  in  part  of  the 
north  lower  colonnade.  Date  uncertain,  possibly 
Xlth  Dynasty. 

3.  Head  of  Menephtah  Siphtah.  XlXth 
Dynasty.  From  the  facing  of  the  pyramid  on 
the  platform  (Part  II.,  I'l.  X.,  p.  12). 

4.  Figure  of  king  from  a  small  stele,  probably 
of  the  XVIIIth  Dynasty. 

5.  Unknown  figure,  perhaps  funerary,  perhaps 
Ptah  or  Osiris.  The  peculiar  fringed  robe  is 
remarkable. 

G.  Part  of  a  kneeling  statue  holdiufc  the  head 
of  Hathor. 

7.  Unfinished  votive  stele  :  the  cow  of  Hathor 
witli  a  table  of  offerino's. 

8.  Upper  part  of  a  small  votive  stele  with  the 
head  of  Hatlior.  In  the  pylon  headdress  are 
three  hawks  (see  PI.  XXXII.  1). 

PI.  XV.  1.  The  stele  of  Senusrit  III.  (Usert- 
sen)  is  that  which  was  found  at  tlie  entrance  of 
the  sul)tcrranean  passage,  the  copy  and  trans- 
lation of  whicli  have  been  published  (see  Part  I., 
PI.  XXIV.,  p.  58  ff.). 

2.  The  painted  temple-relief,  of  yellow  Silsila 
sandstone,  shows  a  princess,  under  whose  arm  is 
a.  boy  liaving  the  name  of  Sa-IIathor.  Her 
dress  is  like  that  of  the  princesses  to  whom 
the  shrines  were  dedicated.  XVIIIth  Dynasty  ; 
from  the  forehall  of  the  Ilathor-speos  (Pt.  I., 
p.  3G).     (British  Museum,  no.  77G.) 

3.  Stele  of  an  official  called  Tliothmes.  He  is 
seen  before  Osiris  and  Isis,  but  the  dedicatory 
inscription  speaks  also  of  offerings  to  Harmakhis- 
Tum,  the  lord  of  Thebes.  XVIIIth  Dynasty. 
(British  Museum,  no.  170.) 

4.  Thothmes  III.  and  Hathor.  The  goddess 
holds  the  sign  of  life  before  the  nostrils  of  the 
king.  XVIIIth  Dynasty  (from  a  liuilding  of 
Thothmes  III.). 


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THE   XIth   dynasty  TEMPLE   AT  DEIR  EL-BAHARI. 


PI.  XVI.  1.  Name  of  a  sanctuary  of  Tliotli- 
mes  I.,  called  Aa-kheper-ka-Ra  khnumlt  ankh 
("joined  to  the  life  of  Aaklieperkara ").  XVIIItli 
Dynasty. 

2.  Fragment  of  Rameses  II.  (p.  6,  PI.  XI.  c). 

3.  Small  limestone  Ilathor  column-capital. 
This  is  the  usual  form  of  the  head  of  the  goddess, 
which  is  often  given  to  the  sistrum.  Probably 
votive. 

5.  A  piece  of  the  floor  of  the  lower  colonnade, 
with  a  roughly-cut  representation  of  the  feet  of  a 

pilgrim,  where  may  be  read  mJ  c>)  00  v  '  •  • "' 
the  porter  (?)  lu  .  .  .,  [or  ^^^(j  "^^^  the 
guardian  Huia. — H.  R.  IL]  ;  the  other  graffito  is 
that  of  a  priest,  f  |  aaaaaa  ....  Such  records  of 
the  visits  of  pilgrims  are  not  uncommon  on  the 
paving-stones  of  Egyptian  temples  (see  Pt.  I., 
p.  25). 

E.  N. 

H.  R.  H. 


PI.  XVII.  1.  British  Museum,  no.  40953. 
Black  granite  head  of  a  votive  statue,  found  in 
the  rubbish  overlying  the  temple,  representing 
a  man  with  shaven  head  and  no  wiu".  Heicht 
4  ins.  Probably  early  XVIIIth  Dynasty  or 
before. 

2.  British  JMuseum,  no.  41044.  White  lime- 
stone :  upper  part  of  a  votive  figure  of  a  priestess, 
"fan-bearer  of  the  image  of  the   cod " 


Good  work,  showing  details  of  the  headdress 
well.  At  the  side  of  the  plinth  at  the  back  is 
represented  the  ostrich -feather  fan  which  the 
priestess  bore  in  the  processions  of  the  image 
which  she  served.  Height  8  ins.  XVIIIth 
Dynasty. 

PI.  XVIIl.  1.  British  Museum,  no.  40954. 
Close-grained  yellow  limestone :  head  of  a  votive 
figure  of  a  man  in  heavy  wig.  Somewhat 
damaged  and  smeared  with  black  paint.     Height 


4  ins.       Possibly    Middle    Kingdom,    but    more 
probably  early  XVIIIth  Dynasty. 

2.  Black  granite  head  of  a  man  in  short  wig. 
XVIIIth  Dynasty. 

3.  Grey  sandstone  head  of  a  man  ;  face  painted 
red  and  wis:  black.     Middle  Kingdom? 

4.  White  limestone  head  of  a  man  with  shaven 
head.     Fine  work.     XVIIIth  Dynasty. 

5.  British  Museum,  no.  43132.  Small  white 
limestone  head  of  a  man  :  very  fine  style.  The 
hair  is  represented  as  natural,  not  a  wig  :  it  is 
moderately  long,  and  the  top  of  the  head  is 
shown  as  bald.  The  face  is  very  expressive. 
The  right  side  of  the  head  is  broken  away. 
Height  3^  ins.     XVIIIth  Dynasty. 

G.  British  Museum,  no.  40955.  Small  white 
limestone  head  of  a  man,  crude  style,  with  the 
top  of  the  head  spread  out  in  an  unnatural 
fashion.  The  features  are  almost  obliterated. 
Height  2h  in.s. 

PI.  XIX.  Objects  from  the  ka-Unn\)  of  king 
Mentuhetep :  1.  the  painted  wooden  top  of  a 
canopic  jar,  roughly  carved  (Britisli  iVIuseum, 
no.  47G28).  2.  A  model  boat  with  rowers 
(America) ;  two  wooden  men  from  the  royal 
funerary  furniture,  and  one  from  another  tomb, 
with  a  model  .sv7L7i'6'»i-sceptre  (British  Museum, 
nos.  47G39,  47640,  40913,  and  47G42) ;  a  set  of 
wooden  model  vases  from  the  ^v/-tomb  (British 
Museum) ;  and  a  triangular  loaf  of  l)rcad  (British 
IMuseum,  no.  40942),  measuring  9  ius.  by  7i  ins., 
which  I  found  myself  in  the  rubbish  immediately 
overlying  a  plundered  XIth  Dynasty  tomb  on 
the  north  lower  court,  between  the  two  temples. 
Odds  and  ends  from  tlie  XIth  Dynasty  burial 
were  found  with  the  loaf,  and  I  have  little  doultt 
that  it  is  a  "  funeral  meal "  of  that  pcricnl. 

PI.  XX.  Human  skulls  from  XIth  Dynasty 
burials:  1.  From  Tomb  3  (Part  I.,  p.  44). 
2.  From  Tomb  2  {!/>.,  p.  43).  3.  From  Tomb  4 
{i/>.,  p.  45).  Nos.  1  and  3  arc  those  of  females; 
no.  2,  the  only  complete  one,  is  that  of  a  man. 


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No.  1  is  iu  the  British  Museum,  uo.  2  in  the 
Museum  of  the  Royal  College  of  Surgeons,  no.  3 
went  to  America.  (In  the  photographs  nos.  1 
and  3  stand  upon  an  ancient  wooden  model 
tub  (?)  from  an  Xlth  Dynasty  grave.) 

PI.  XXI.  The  upper  part  of  two  portrait- 
statues  of  Seuusrit  III.  (see  ch  III.)  :  (a)  in  the 
British  Museum,  (b)  at  Cairo. 

PI.  XXII.  1-6.  Trial  drawings  on  slips  of 
limestone  (ddbsh)  (see  Part  I.,  p.  24).  No.  1  is 
a  man  smelling  the  ground  before  Pharaoh  ; 
no.  2  a  bullock  walking ;  no.  3  a  hawk  and  a 
man  holding  a  flower ;  no.  4  a  monkey  under- 
neath a  king's  throne,  with  a  sketch  for  an 
ornamented  ceiling  behind ;  no.  5  is  another 
sketch  for  a  ceiling ;  no.  6  is  a  serpent  of  lime- 
stone, unfinished.  No.  7  is  a  sketch  of  a  naos 
(no  doubt  one  of  those  of  the  Xlth  Dynasty 
on  the  temple-platform ;  Part  I.,  pp.  30  If.  ; 
II.,  pp.  6  ff".)  on  a  fragment  of  yellow  pottery. 
No.  8  is  the  lower  part  of  a  small  sandstone 
stele,  on  which  is  painted  a  scene  of  a  girl  with 
side-lock  offering  to  two  seated  male  figures  in 
voluminous  white  robes.  No.  9  are  specimens 
of  the  curious  votive  offering  mentioned  on 
page  17  :  a  cake  of  mud  filled  with  holes,  in 
which  are  stuck  broken  blue  beads.  All  the 
above  are  of  the  XVIIIth  and  XlXth  Dynasties. 

PI.  XXIII.  Votive  pottery  of  the  XVIIIth 
Dynasty.  The  specimens  here  illustrated  are  all 
in   the   British   Museum.      They   comprise   (1) 

rough   double  or  triple  vases  ((Wl)   of  coarse 

brown  ware,  sometimes  daubed  with  paint ; 
(2)  painted  miniature  pots  from  the  edges  of 
larger  pots  and  from  kernoi,  evidently,  from 
their  blackened  condition,  often  used  for  the 
burning  of  incense  before  the  divine  image  of 
Hathor  by  the  devoter  (see  page  15);  (3)  painted 
knobs  or  button-like  rosettes  from  the  edges  of 
similar  votive  pots,  often  sticking  out  for  a 
distance  of  half  an  inch  from  the  adhering  frag- 


ments of  tlic  original  pots,  which  were  evidently 
imitations  of   metal  vases    of  price  (page   15); 

(4)  small  Hathor-heads  used  in  the  same  manner; 

(5)  vases  from  kernoi  or  double  pots  like  (1), 
with  rude  zigzag  decoration  made  by  means  of 
a  piece  of  stick  ;  (6)  fragments  of  vases,  each 
similarly  decorated,  and  with  a  row  of  tiny  little 
pots  stuck  along  under  the  outside  edge  of  the 
rim  of  the  vessel :  this  is  a  degradation  of  the 
idea  of  (2). 

PI.  XXIV.  1.  Pottery  cows  and  Hathor-heads 
from  similar  kernoi  and  votive  bowls  (see  page 
15),  wooden  Hathor-heads  and  vicnats,  and  a 
rudely-cut  plaque  of  white  steatite,  unglazed,  on 
which  is  the  cow  of  Hathor  among  papyrus  reeds 
(British  Museum,  no.  410G0). 

2.  Wooden  votive  ear  (page  16).  Pottery 
figures  of  girls  (connected  with  the  Hathoric 
worship),  one  of  which  (in  the  centre  of  the 
illustration)  is  very  fine  (British  Museum,  no. 
41107).  It  is  5  in.  high  (see  page  16).  Rude 
heads  of  the  common  type  of  Hathoric  figure. 

3.  Blue  glazed  faience  Hathor  head  and  torso 
of  Hathoric  figure. 

4.  5.  Bronze  votive  eyes,  ears,  and  Hathor  cow. 
6.  Portion    of    stone    bowl    with    rudely-cut 

couchant  cow  or  jackal  on  the  edge. 

All  these  objects  are  votive,  and  are  exclusively 
of  the  XVIIIth  Dynasty. 

PI.  XXV.  Miscellaneous  smaller  votive  ob- 
jects of  the  XVIIIth  Dynasty :  1.  A  string  of 
alternating  blue  and  black  cones,  from  a  model 
scourge,  symbol  of  divinity.  2.  Model  eyes, 
ears,  Hathor  heads,  cows,  rosettes,  beads,  and 
scarabs  of  blue  and  black  glazed  faience  :  one 
cow  is  of  bronze.  A  set  of  scarabs  is  still  strung 
on  the  original  thread.  A  piece  of  patterned 
bead-work  in  tiny  beads  of  brilliant  colours  is 
notable.  3.  A  disk  bead  of  mother-of-pearl,  with 
two  perforations.  4.  A  bunch  of  triple  beads  of 
blue  and  black  glazed  faience.  5.  Glazed  faience 
and  steatite  scarabs  of  the  XVIIIth  Dynasty, 


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THE    XlTH   DYNASTY   TEMPLE   AT   DEIR   EL-BAHARI. 


some  with  the  name  of  Hatshepsu.  Steatite 
scarab  of  Khakaura  Senusrit  III.  Deep  blue 
glazed  faience  spherical  bead  of  Sankhkara  (see 
page  14). 

PI.  XXVI.  Fragments  of  blue  glazed  ware 
votive  bowls  of  the  XVIIIth  Dynasty.  The 
designs  are  all  Ilathoric  —  the  Ilathor-head, 
papyrus,  fish,  etc.  No.  4,  a  fragment  of  a 
crinkle-edge  bowl  in  the  Ashmolean  Mu.seum, 
has  on  it  a  very  freely  treated  plant.  ISo.  5, 
also  in  the  Ashmolean,  has  a  funerary  prayer 

(t  A  n)  *'*'  "  ^"^  mistress"  Hathor  for  the 
devoter,  ".  .  .  .  uh-uer,  deceased"  (.  .  .  .  %^  1^ 
,  who  is  represented  praying. 

PI.  XXVII.  Similar  fraoments  of  blue  glaze  : 
those  with  the  cows  on  the  right  (2)  are  in  the 
British  Museum.  3.  Fragments  of  blue  glaze 
mendts  (in  the  Ashmolean)  with  royal  names  of 
the  early  and  mid-XVIIIth  Dynasty — Aahmes- 
Nefertari  (E  2727),  Thothmes  I.  (E  2728),  and 
Hatshepsu  (E  2729).  4.  Fragment  of  a  blue 
glaze  "moustache-cup"  (British  Museum).  5. 
Fragment  of  painted  pottery  ;  brown  ware,  with 
representations  of  plants  in  black.  G.  Beads  of 
pale  blue,  dark  blue,  and  black  glaze ;  some 
lentoid  with  fragments  of  turquoise  glass  stuck 
on  them  ;  some  of  small  bits  of  folded  reed-leaf. 
Bits  of  cloth  with  beads  worked  into  them.  All 
votive :  XVIIIth  Dynasty. 

PI.  XXVIII.  Miscellaneous  objects  found  in 
the  upper  strata  of  the  rubbish  overlying  the 
temple  (page  18):  a  basket  (l),  pieces  of  basket  or 
mat- work  and  two  sandals  (2),  a  five-fold  brush 
(3),  a  bag  of  natron  (4),  a  leather  bag  (5),  a 
small  bird  and  a  piece  of  bread  (G),  and  a  fiat  cake 
of  bread  (7).  These  must  all  be  relics  of  work- 
men of  the  XVIII-XXth  Dynasty,  though  (7) 
may  have  been  thrown  out  of  an  Xlth  Dynasty 
tomb.  (8)  is  a  string  of  glazed  faience  beads, 
cylindrical,  segmental  (see  p.  17),  and  spherical. 
XVIIIth  Dynasty. 


PI.  XXIX.  Tools  and  implements,  etc.,  of  the 
Ramesside  period  (Pt.  I.,  p.  16) :  (1)  A  reed  mat 
and  bowl ;  (2)  a  wooden  hoe  with  its  original 
cross-rope  ;  (3)  wooden  mallets  ;  (4)  rope  ;  (5)  a 
bronze  fish-hook  (British  Museum) ;  (6)  a  fine 
bronze  graver  for  cutting  hieroglyphs,  possibly 
of  the  XVIIIth  Dynasty,  and  used  for  the  work 
in  Hatshepsu's  temple  (Cairo) ;  (7)  a  copper 
chisel  with  hardened  edge  (Cairo) ;  and  (8)  a 
heavy  stone  chisel  (British  Museum ;  Part  I., 
p.  4G). 

PI.  XXX.  Votive  cloths  of  the  XVIIIth 
Dynasty  (see  pages  15,  30). 

PI.  XXXI.     Similar  votive  cloths. 

PI.  XXXII.  Miscellaneous  votive  objects  of 
the  kind  described  above  (Pis.  XXIII.-XXIX., 
and  ch.  IV.).  No.  16  shows  a  very  perfect 
kernos,  with  vases  and  couchant  cows  alternating 
on  a  circular  pipe-like  base.  No.  12  (Ashmolean) 
has  a  thick  running  glaze. 

PI.  XXXIII.  Miscellaneous  objects,  XIX- 
XXth  Dynasty  and  Roman,  of  the  type  illustrated 
in  Pk  XXVIII.,  XXIX.,  comprising:  (2)  mallets; 
(3)  the  fine  hoc  illustrated  in  PI.  XXIX.  2  ;  (4)  a 
brown  ware  vase  with  rope  frame  and  loops  for 
hanging,  now  in  the  British  Museum  (no.  43223) ; 
(5)  a  wooden  clamp  for  building ;  (9)  a  brush 
with  red  paint  (British  Museum) ;  (6,  10,  13, 15) 
ostraka  of  the  Ramesside  period  ;  (14)  ostrakon 
with  a  rude  plan  of  a  building  or  garden  ;  (15)  a 
sketch  of  ceiling-pattern;  (39-41)  [transferred 
from  the  preceding  plate],  Xlth  Dynasty 
arrows  and  a  Ramesside  (?)  toggle  with  string  ; 
(11)  fragment  of  Roman  pottery  with  dancing 
figure  ;  (8)  a  Greek  stamp. 

[Note.— Pis.  XXX.-XXXIII.  are  drawn  by 
]\Ir.  C.  T.  Currelly.] 

PI.   XXXIV.     Miscellaneous   objects,   Roman 

and  Coptic:    1.   Stele  of  the  athlete, , 

son  of  Pasemis  (page  20).     '•2.  Vase-lid  (for  an 


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incense-pot?)  of  pale  blue  faience.  .0.  Spouted 
anipliora  of  rough  brown  ware,  with  rope.  4. 
Turned  Roman  woodwork.  5,  G.  Jloniau  carved 
woodwork.  7.  IJeed  cro.ss.  8.  Cross  of  two 
twifTs  tied  together.  9.  Fraa;ment  of  alabaster 
cauopic  jar  with  Coptic  drawing  of  an  angel 
(page  21). 

PI.  XXXV.     Views  of  the  temple-excavations, 


from  photographs  by  M.  D.  Dalison  (1),  E.  R. 
Ayrton  (2,  3),  and  myself  (4-G). 

ir.  R.  IT. 

PI.  XXXVl.  General  view  of  the  two  temples 
of  Deir  el-Baliari  from  the  north  (taken  by 
Mr.  Burton),  showing  the  completion  of  the 
work  of  the  Egypt  Exploration  Fund  at  Deir 
el-Bahari.     Finin  conmat  opus. 


E  2 


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THE  XItu   dynasty  TEMPLE   AT   DEIR   EL-BAHARI. 


APPENDIX. 

THE    SMALL    ANTIQUITIES    ILLUSTRATED    ON    PLATES    XXX.-XXXIII. 

By  C.  T.  Currelly. 


Mr.  Hall  lias  already  dealt  generally  with  the 
smaller  objects.  I  wish,  however,  to  add  a  few 
words  on  the  subject  of  joarticular  classes  of 
objects  which  are  illustrated,  in  addition  to  the 
pliotographs,  by  my  drawings  on  Pis.  XXX.- 
XXXIII.  The  objects  which  I  have  illustrated 
are  mostly  of  the  XVIIIth  and  XlXth  Dynasties, 
and,  as  Mr.  Hall  has  said  in  Part  I.,  were 
found  mixed  up  irregularly  in  the  masses  of 
stone  chips  and  wind-blown  dust  above  the 
Xlth  Dynasty  temple.  The  greater  number 
were  at  a  level  that  marked  a  "lioor"  of  the 
time  when  worshippers  came  to  place  gifts 
before  the  Ilathor  cow  that  we  found  in  situ. 
The  most  numerous  objects  were  of  blue  glaze — 
tubular  beads,  disc  beads,  spherical  beads,  and 
fragments  of  bowls.  The  moment  we  dug  into 
this  layer  quantities  of  beads  were  found,  as  if 
thousands  of  necklaces,  dedicated  to  the  Cow- 
goddess,  had  been  swept  out  by  the  priests  with 
the  dust  and  thrown  in  proper  Egyptian  fashion 
to  that  side  which  the  priest  or  attendant  found 
easiest.  There  they  would  soon  be  covered,  and 
so  protected,  by  the  wind-blown  dust  that  circles 
about  in  the  great  valley  (Hall,  Part  I.,  p.  17). 
The  majority  of  the  beads  are  tul)ular,  and 
have  a  diameter  of  a  little  less  than  a  quarter  of 
an  inch,  and  are  about  two  inches  long.  There 
is,  however,  variation  in  both  diameter  and 
length.  Frequently  a  few  were  still  joined  by 
the  original  linen  thread,  and  as  these  were 
almost  invarialjly  broken  beads,  it  is  prol)able 
that    a  whole    bead  was    the    exception    in    the 


necklaces  offered  to  the  goddess.  The  whole 
bead  is  also  rather  long  to  hang  well  on  a 
woman's  neck. 

The  best  of  the  beads  are  of  the  colour  of  the 
Sinai  tur(|uoise,  from  which  the  colouring  was 
doubtless  copied.  Hathor  is  frequently  called 
the  goddess  who  loves  the  tur(|uoise.  Her 
temple  in  Sinai  was  built  at  Saraljit  el-Khadim 
in  the  midst  of  the  turquoise  mines,  and  built  of 
turquoise-bearing  sandstone.  Here  also  were 
offered  thousands  of  necklaces  of  the  same  beads, 
and  "reat  numbers  of  bowls  and  vases  of  the 
same  colour  and  material.  I  think  from  this  we 
may  conclude  that  the  colour  of  the  turquoise,  as 
well  as  the  stone  itself,  was  especially  associated 
with  the  worship  of  the  goddess,  and  that  neck- 
laces of  the  kind  found  at  these  two  temples 
were  worn  and,  at  times,  dedicated  by  those  who 
wished  the  aid  of  the  goddess  of  love  and 
motherhood. 

The  blue  colour  is  obtained  from  oxide  of 
copper,  and  is  over  a  frit  made  of  sand  and  soda 
heated  to  a  point  which  makes  it  firm  but  does 
not  fuse  it  into  true  glass.  [See  also  p.  17,  n.  1, 
above.— H.  R.  II.] 

The  manufacture  of  beads  of  this  material 
goes  back  to  predynastic  days.  Several  strings 
were  found  at  Al)ydos.  Professor  Petrie  also 
found  them  in  a  layer  of  the  Ist  Dynasty  at 
Abydos.  The  predynastic  beads  are  usually 
small.  In  the  predynastic  tombs  many  beads 
and  amulets  of  quartz  are  found  that  are  covered 
with  a  blue  glaze.      It  is  probable  that  the  frit 


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bend  was  invented  as  a  cheaper  and  better 
substitute  for  the  glazed  quartz.  In  the  frit 
bead,  where  the  body  of  the  bead  is  of  the 
same  material  as  the  glaze,  minus  the  copper, 
they  adliere  well,  whereas  the  glaze  readily 
flakes  oft'  from  the  quartz.  These  blue-glazed 
(juartz  beads  and  amulets  appear  also  in  the 
so-called  Pan-crraVes  at  the  close  of  the  Xllth 
Dynasty. 

The  XVIIItli  Dynasty  beads  found  liere  before 
the  shrine  of  Ilathor  are  of  a  much  more  brilliant 
and  a  purer  blue  colour  than  those  found  else- 
where or  of  any  other  period.  The  whole 
question  of  glazes  must  have  received  a  great 
impetus  from  the  enormous  demand  for  neck- 
laces and  bowls  at  this  period,  and  it  was  at  this 
time  that  someone  succeeded  in  producing  a  fire 
hot  enough  to  melt  the  sand  and  soda  frit,  and 
so  produce  true  glass.  Of  all  the  thousands  of 
tliesc  beads  that  I  have  seen  none  have  Iteen 
accidentally  fused.  In  any  considerable  number 
of  XXIInd  Dynasty  beads  of  the  same  general 
kind  many  show  fusion.  This  may  be  due  to 
the  thinness  of  the  frit  in  the  bead.  Possibly  it 
is  to  the  accident  of  the  firing  that  we  owe  a 
certain  number  of  dull  green  lieads.  A  few  of 
the  finest  have  a  spiral  line  drawn  around  them 
in  the  manganese  purple  black.  Tliese  finest 
beads  are,  however,  rare,  and  the  difticulties 
of  glazinjr  are  well  shown  in  the  numbers  of 
defective  beads. 

The  vases  are  made  of  the  same  frit  as  the 
beads.  The  fragments  show  that  the  commonest 
form  was  the  shallow  bowl.  See  ante,  pp.  17,  18, 
Pis.  XXVI.,  XXVII.  I  have  added  a  few  draw- 
ings (PI.  XXXII.  10-15,  18,  19),one(12)showing 
a  spiral  design  that  is  interesting  and  may  be  of 
J^g&au.  origin  (see  also  p.  2G). 

A  few  fragments  were  found  where  two  tones 
of  blue  were  used,  one  a  light  turquoise  and 
the  other  a  deep  purple  blue.  These  pieces 
were  executed  with  the  greatest  skill,  and 
the  colours  were  in  scale-shaped  cloisons, 
made  probably  by  engraving  the  paste  of  the 


frit.  I  think  these  were  the  finest  pieces  of 
Egyptian  glazed  ware  that  have  yet  been  found 
(see  p.  18).^ 

The  design  on  the  bowls  is  always  drawn  in  a 
purple-black  colour  that  was  probably  obtained 
from  oxide  of  manganese.  The  design  is  usually 
an  outline  drawing,  but  sometimes  the  spaces 
are  filled  in  with  solid  colour.  Beads  and  other 
things  arc  rarely  found  that  are  completely 
covered  with  the  manganese  colour.  A  very 
common  subject  is  a  pond  of  zigzag  water  in  the 
bottom  of  the  bowl,  and  from  it  the  lotus  flowers 
are  represented  as  growing.  At  times  the  subject 
is  a  few  fish,  either  with  or  without  the  pond. 

The  frit  of  which  the  bowls  are  made  seems 
to  have  no  clay  in  it,  and  it  is  so  fragile  that 
it  is  probable  that  they  were  little  used  for 
domestic  purposes.  This  is  borne  out  also  by  the 
numbers  found  at  Deir  el-Bahari  and  at  Sarabit 
el-Khadim  in  Sinai,  as  compared  with  the  scarcity 
of  them  in  tombs  or  in  town  sites,  though  there 
are  a  certain  number  found  both  in  tomlis  and 
in  town  rubbish. 

In  addition  to  the  small  beads  and  bowls 
there  were  numerous  other  objects  made  with  the 
blue  glaze.  The  fragments  of  hollow  spheres, 
decorated  by  purple-black  and  l)lue  segments, 
are  mentioned  on  page  17.  We  were  puzzled 
for  a  long  time  by  a  large  number  of  flat 
pieces  of  glaze  about  two  inches  long,  and  of 
the  general  form  of  a  willow  leaf,  but  with  a 
broken  base.  These,  I  found  out  later,  were  set 
in  clay  models  of  the  lower  part  of  a  lotus,  and 
formed  a  blue  mass  of  petals  on  the  top. 

The  other  things  made  of  frit  and  decorated 

'  [With  this  opinion  1  should  he  incHned  to  agree. 
Fine  specimens  of  this  inlay  ware,  which  I  have  already 
mentioned  on  p.  18,  are  in  the  Britisli  Museum  (nos. 
41023-4,  41032-.J,  43163).  These  show  designs  of  zigzags 
as  well  as  scales.  They  are  too  fragmentary  to  determine 
the  shape  of  the  vessels  of  which  they  formed  part.  A 
complete  bowl  or  vase  of  this  inlay  glaze-ware  would  be  a 
magnificent  object.  None  such,  however,  is  known,  and, 
so  far  as  I  am  aware,  these  fragmentary  specimens  are  the 
only  ones  yet  found  of  this  remarkable  fabric. — H.  K.  H.] 


30 


THE   XIth   dynasty   TEMPLE   AT   DEIR  EL-BAHARI. 


with  glaze  were  the  small  votive  cows,  hadly 
made  and  of  only  a  few  inches  in  length,  votive 
ears  (PI.  XXXII.  20,  21,  etc.),  small  plaques  with 
the  face  of  the  goddess  Hatlior  (PI.  XXX 1 1., 
no.  l),and  a  few  phalli  and  other  objects  already 
described  by  ]\Ir.  Hall  in  Chapter  IV. 

The  sjjecial  relation  of  blue  colour  with  the 
goddess  cannot  lie  doubted.  A  very  Ijeautiful 
piece  of  yellow  glaze  was  found,  part  of  a  solid 
ball  of  faience  (Brit.  Mus.,  no.  43162),  but  it  was 
the  only  large  fragment  not  of  blue. 

As  the  invention  of  glass  is  probably  the 
greatest  contribution  that  Egypt  made  to  the 
material  civilization  of  the  world,  and  as  its 
invention  probably  came  through  the  working 
of  blue  glaze  for  the  worship  of  Ilathor,  it  is 
clear  that  the  Valley  of  Ilathor,  who  loved  the 
turquoise,  should  l)e  reckoned  among  the  great 
places  of  the  world. 

On  Pis.  XXX.,  XXXI.  I  illustrate  a  class  of 
votive  ofl'ering  which,  I  believe,  has,  as  Mr.  Hall 
says  (p.  15),  been  found  only  near  this  temple, 
viz.,  the  painted  picture  on  linen  cloth.  These 
are  painted  in  tempera  on  heavy  cloth.  The 
surface  was  prepared  by  a  thin  layer  of  white 
being  painted  over  the  whole  surface.  The 
design  was  outlined  in  black,  or  occasionally  in 
red,  and  then  filled  in  with  colour.  The  inscrip- 
is  in  black.  The  cloth  is  fringed  on  one  or  more 
sides.  The  subject  is  always  a  votive  scene, 
where  a  man,  usually  accompanied  by  his  wife 
and  family,  makes  an  offering  to  Ilathor.  The 
goddess  is  usually  represented  in  her  cow  form, 
sometimes  in  a  boat,  sometimes  just  appearing 
from  the  Deir  el-Bahari  cliff.  In  a  few  examples 
she  is  represented  in  her  human  form  (see  PI. 
XXXI.  3,  4). 

Here  and  there  in  the  rubbish  we  found  tools 
that  the  workmen  had  lost,  or  perhaps  thrown 
away  (see  p.  18  ff.).  The  chisels  were  of  large 
size,  with  a  splayed  out  cutting  edge.  The 
general  form  was  much  like  our  modern  chisel. 
The  mallets  were  very  numerous,  probably  fifty 
were  found  altogether.     The  handle  was  in  one 


piece  with  the  rather  jiineapple-shaped  hitting 
part  (see  PI.  XXXI II.,  no.  2).  The  wood  is 
acacia.  On  the  same  plate  is  a  drawing  of  a 
wooden  pick,  of  which  perhaps  a  dozen  were 
found.  The  blade  was  still  fastened  to  the 
handle  with  its  rope  of  palm  fibre.  This  simple- 
looking  tool  is  really  very  cunningly  made,  as 
may  be  seen  if  the  angle  of  the  strain  be  noted. 

A  considerable  number  of  brushes  for  the  use 
of  the  sculptors  were  found  (PI.  XXXIII.,  no.  9). 
They  were  made  by  twisting  a  small  cord  of 
palm  fil)re  round  strands  of  the  same  nuiterial, 
so  as  to  form  a  roll  about  three  ((uarters  of  an 
inch  in  diameter.  When  a  brush  was  desired,  a 
few  inches  were  cut  off  from  this  roll,  the  two 
ends  were  unwound  for  about  two  inches,  the 
piece  was  then  doubled  over,  and  the  loose  ends 
of  the  cord  were  tied  around  both  ends  of  the 
fibre. 

Two  other  objects  connected  with  the  building 
operations  were  wooden  clamps  and  pieces  of 
wood  prepared  to  l)e  the  ends  of  lines.  The 
clamps  were  found  in  small  numbers,  but  were 
probably  considerably  used  during  the  XIth 
Dynasty,  as  many  stones  were  cut  to  receive 
them.  Mortar  was  in  common  use,  so  these  were 
not  always  required  (PI.  XXXIII.,  no.  5).  In 
the  same  plate,  no.  41,  is  what  we  thought  were 
the  ends  of  lines  used  by  the  architects.  The 
wood  is  well  polished  by  the  hands  of  the  users. 
In  a  few  cases  the  cord  was  still  wound  around 
the  stick,  and  one  end  was  still  coming  out 
through  the  hole  (see  p.  2G). 

A  considerable  number  of  rough  sketches  were 
found.  The  majority  were  made  on  chips  of 
limestone  with  black  paint  and  a  ])rush.  A  few 
bore  red  crosslines,  put  over  the  sketch  to  enable 
the  artist  to  transfer  it  to  a  wall  without  extra 
trouble  (see  PI.  XXXIII.,  nos.  G,  10,  13).  No.  14 
of  the  same  plate  is  probably  a  rough  plan  of 
a  house.  No.  1  of  this  plate  is  a  potsherd  on 
which  a  star  has  been  very  carefully  drawn. 
This  is  the  form  of  star  used  frequently  in  ceiling 
decoration,  and  also  where  it  was  desirable  to 


APPENDIX. 


:n 


show  that  the  scene  l)ek)w  was  separated  from 
tlie  ouc  above — under  a  difl'erent  sky. 

A  very  elaborate  sketch  that  we  found  shows 
the  laying  out  f)f  a  pyramid.  The  space  is 
divided  into  small  squares,  and  on  these  the 
pyramid  was  drawn. 

Even  during  tlie  excavation  of  the  great 
XVIlIth  Dynasty  temple  the  workmen  were 
constantly  finding  small  and  roughly-carved 
wooden  figures  that  were  known  to  belong  to 
wooden  models  like  those  found  in  Xlth  and 
Xlltli  Dynasty  tombs.  At  the  entrance  to  the 
great  royal  tomb,  or  La  sanctuary,  in  the  Xlth 
Dynasty  temple  we  found  many  baskets  of  these 
little  models.  As  a  rule  they  were  not  over  six 
inches  high.  The  work  was  rough,  the  arms 
pegged  on  and  shapeless,  and  the  painting  of  the 
features,  such  as  the  eyes,  very  careless.  The 
majority  of  the  figures  were  painted  with  yellow 
ochre,  the  hnir,  eyes,  etc.,  being  in  black.  A  few 
were  painted  red  with  the  black.  If  any  loin- 
cloth was  shown  it  was  painted  white.  When 
we  at  last  entered  the  great  granite  chamber, 
the  whole  floor  was  littered  with  these  fissures. 
Three  broken  model  boats,  pieces  of  granaries, 
figures  of  labourers,  scribes,  beer  jars,  l)ake  ovens, 
baskets  of  grain,  and  other  farm  produce  were 
lying  mixed  up  with  scores  of  pieces  of  broken 
bows,  arrows,  clubs,  and  innumerable  shreds  of 
very  fine  linen.  The  debris  was  more  than  a 
foot  thick,  and  there  was  not  an  object  that  had 
not  been  broken  as  maliciously  as  possible.  The 
bows  had  been  beautifully  made,  and  of  a  very 
good  and  hard  wood  ;  they  were  of  the  ordinary 
Middle  Empire  type,  long  and  thin,  better  suited 
for  throwing  an  arrow  with  a  long,  slow  curved 
flight  than  at  great  sjjeed.  One  arrow  had  the 
wings  carved  in  wood,  and  they  were  so  carved 
that  the  arrow  would  rotate  like  a  rifle  bullet 


(see  PI.  XXXIir.,  no.  40).  No.  .39  is  a  double 
barbed  arrow-point.  This  is  the  only  one  of  its 
kind  I  have  ever  seen. 

A  few  figures  were  found  of  which  the  carving 
was  good.  Tlie  dificrcnce  between  the.sc  and  the 
ordinary  run  of  the  type  was  very  great,  as,  not 
only  was  the  work  carefully  done,  but  they 
showed  a  good  deal  of  artistic  skdl,  and  were 
particularly  vigorous  (see  the  figures  illustrated 
in  IMr.  Hall's  PI.  XIX.;  one,  a  figure  of  a 
dignitary,  without  wig,  wearing  a  long  apron, 
and  standing  with  cro.sscd  arms  (Brit.  j\Ius., 
no.  470:58)  is  not  illustrated).  Wc  found  only 
three  or  four  pieces  of  bone,  fragments  of 
a  skull,  a  half  of  a  lower  jaw-l)one,  and  a 
small  piece  probably  of  a  leg-bone.  These 
were  black,  and  looked  as  if  they  had  been 
covered  with  Intumcn  after  the  flesh  had  been 
removed.' 

In  the  shrine  where  wc  found  the  great  statue 
of  the  Ilathor-cow  (Part  I.,  ch.  VI.)  the  only 
other  objects  were  many  basketsfuU  of  roughly- 
carved  wooden  phalli  that  had  been  placed  on 
the  floor  around  the  statue.  A  few  of  the  same 
kind  had  been  found  in  the  rul)bisli  at  some 
distance  from  the  shrine. 


'  [These  are  in  the  British  Museum  (no.  49457),  with  a 
fragment  of  a  coffin  (not  certainly  found  in  the  "  tomb  "), 
on  which  seem  to  appear  the  signs  of  the  king's  Horus- 
name  (no.  4762G).  A  wooden  figure  of  the  king  seated  in 
state,  wearing  the  white  crown,  in  his  funerary  boat  was 
assigned,  I  believe,  to  the  Museum  of  Geneva.  The  British 
Museum  has  the  lower  portion  of  a  similar  figure,  with  the 
roof  of  the  canopy  above  it,  and  the  hull  of  a  similar  boat. 
The  best  boat  with  rowers  wont  to  America  (PI.  XIX.  2) ; 
a  second  is  at  (Jencva.  The  British  Museum  has  a  good 
set  of  the  fragments  of  bows  and  arrows  found,  and  some 
good  specimens  have  gone  to  the  University  Museum  at 
Kyoto.  Certainly  if  this  hypogaeum  was  not  an  actual 
tomb,  it  was  provided  with  all  the  usual  aj>])urteiiaiices  of 
a  royal  burial  at  the  time. — H.  11.  H.] 


INDEX 


INDEX    TO    PAET    III. 


Abraham,  bishop  of  Eraient,  20. 

AmenothOs,  as  god,  19. 

Amulets,  11,  16. 

Angel,  Coptic  clrawing  of  an,  21. 

Anows  (Xlth  Dynasty),  26,  31. 

el-Asasif,  19. 

Assyrian,  mentioned  on  an  ostrakon,  18. 

Athlete,  stele  of  the,  20. 

Baskets,  18. 

Beads  (XVIIIth  Dynasty),  17,  28;  bead-work,  25;  bead- 
making,  29. 

Blue  glaze,  15,  28  if. 

Boats,  model  (Xlth  Dynasty),  31. 

Bonos,  fragments  of,  31. 

Bowls,  gla/.cd,  H. 

Bows,  31. 

Bread,  ancient,  18,  21. 

Britain,  XVIIIth  Dynasty  Egyptian  beads  in  Bronze  Age 
graves  in,  17. 

Bronze  plaqucK,  16 ;  tools,  IH,  2f). 

Brushes,  palm-libre,  30. 

Burton.  Mr.,  photograph  by,  27. 

Chisels,  18,  20,  30. 

Clamps,  wooden,  30 

Cloths,  painted  votive,  15,  30. 

Cones,  funerary,  19. 

Coptic  objects,  ostraka,  etc.,  20. 

Coral,  18. 

Cow  of  Hathor,  14. 

Crete,  analogies  with,  16,  18. 

Cross,  Coptic,  27. 

Diduaa,  son  of  Hataai,  stele  of,  4. 

Djaui,  statue  of,  7. 

Drawings  on  limestone,  18,  25. 

Ear  and  eye  amulets,  16. 


Faience,  14  £f.,  17  n.  '  (see  also  "  Glaze  "). 

Faras,  Hathor-temple  at,  relics  from,  14,  16. 

Flower-headdress,  royal,  23. 

Foot-graffiti  of  pilgrims,  24. 

Fruit,  shells  of,  18  ;  votive  models  of,  17. 

Glass,  invention  of,  30. 
Glaze,  16,  17,  28 ;  inlaid,  29. 
Graving-tool,  18. 
Greek  ostraka,  19. 

Hathor,  28  ;  Hathor-cow,  figures  of,  14  ;  Hathor-heads,  25. 
Hathoric  figures,  14. 
Hatshepsu,  scarabs  of,  14. 
Hieratic  ostraka,  19. 

Imouthes,  worship  of,  19. 
Incense-gum  {('niti),  1,  18. 

Jto-tomb  of  King  Mentuhetep,  objects  from,  24,  31. 
Kemsit,  tomb  of,  9. 
Kenioi,  15,  25. 

Lake,  in  Wiltshire,  discoveries  at,  17. 
Letters,  Coptic,  20. 
Libyans,  reliefs  of,  23. 
Limestone  ostraka,  18,  20. 

Mallets,  18,  30. 

Meritamon,  queen,  19. 

Models  (Xlth  Dynasty)  from  tombs,  31. 

Monastery,  Coptic,  of  S.  Phoibammon,  20. 

Mortar,  30. 

Moustache-cups,  IB. 

Necklaces,  17. 

Nehi,  viceroy  of  Nubia,  statue  of,  3. 

Nutmeg,  shells  of,  18. 

Ostraka,  Hieratic,  Greek,  and  Coptic,  18  ff. 


36 


INDKX. 


Paintings,  wall,  in  tomb  of  Kemsit,  9. 

Paiseru  (Paser),  viceroy  of  Nubia,  statues  of,  5. 

Pan-graves,  29. 

Phalli,  30,  31. 

Phylakopi  (Melos),  18  ii.  '. 

Pilgrims'  grafliti,  24. 

Plant-designs,  18. 

Pottery,  15,  18. 

Punite,  relief  of  a,  23. 

Rameses  II.  and  Queen  Nefertari,  fragment  of  figure,  6. 
Restorations  by  Rameses  II.,  18. 
Ring-stands,  pottery,  15. 

Sankhkara,  bead  of,  14. 

Sa-Hathor,  relief  of,  23. 

Sarabit  el-Khadim,  Hathor-worship  at,  14,  28. 

Scarabs,  14. 

Segmental  beads,  17. 

Senusrit  III.,  statues  of  10 ;  stele  of,  23  ;  scarab  of,  14. 

Set,  relief  of  (Xlth  Dynasty),  23. 

Shells  of  fruit  in  XVIIIth  Dynasty  deposit,  18. 

Sinai,  Ilatlior  worship  at,  14,  2K. 


Siphtah,  relief  of,  23. 

Skulls  (Xlth  Dynasty),  24. 

Small  objects,  13  ff. 

Statues,  votive,  1,  24  ;  of  Senusrit  III.,  10. 

Steatite,  glazed,  14. 

Stein,  Sir  M.  A.,  discoveries  of,  21. 

Tan  Hill,  in  Wiltshire,  discoveries  at,  17. 

Tax-receipts,  Roman,  21. 

Thothmes  I.,  sanctuary  of,  24. 

Tools,  18. 

Turkestan,  analogies  with,  21. 

Turquoise,  19,  28. 

Tutankhamon,  3. 

Twelfth  Dynasty,  .art  of,  9. 

Usihat,  stele  of,  3. 

Victor,  Apa,  20. 

Votive  offerings,  1  ff.,  13  ff. 

Wall-paintiug,  in  tomb  of  Kemsit,  9. 


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HEADS  OF  VOTIVE   FIGURES:   MIDDLE    KINGDOM  (?>   AND  XVIIITH   DYNASTY. 


PLATE   XIX. 


FROM   THE   KA-TOMB   OF   KINO    MCNTUIILTEP. 


FROM   THE   KA-TOMB. 


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MISCELLANEOUS  OBJECTS:   ROMAN   AND   COPTIC. 


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1.    CLEARING  THE  TEMPLE   PLATFORM:   THE  SHOOTS 
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